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DBMS > Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenEdge vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenEdge vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.progress.com/­openedgespark.apache.org/­sqltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftProgress Software CorporationApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20142015198420142014
Current release2.1.12, February 2017V1OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafarihostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Java
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnoJava Stored Procedures
TriggersUsing read-only observersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4yes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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