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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

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

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

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

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2005

1991

2015

1993

Current release

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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