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DBMS > Galaxybase vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitegalaxybase.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司SpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Microsoft
Initial release2017201420102015
Current releaseNov 20, November 2021V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhosted
Data schemeStrong typed schemaschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing Azure authentication

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