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

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Spotify

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2017

2014

2010

2015

1994

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

using Azure authentication

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