DBMS > Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Search engine	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS
Secondary database models		Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS	Score 5.52 Rank #59   Overall #6   Search engines		Score 0.07 Rank #371   Overall #39   Graph DBMS
Website	google.github.io/­lovefield	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentation	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md	learn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
Developer	Google	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP	Transwarp
Initial release	2014	2015	1993
Current release	2.1.12, February 2017	V1
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	JavaScript
Server operating systems	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	hosted	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	no	yes	SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods		RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	OpenCypher
Supported programming languages	JavaScript	C# Java JavaScript Python	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	yes
Triggers	Using read-only observers	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	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	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes using MemoryDB	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	no	yes using Azure authentication	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes
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	Lovefield	Microsoft Azure AI Search	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Transwarp StellarDB
Recent citations in the news		Announcing updates to Azure AI Search to help organizations build and scale generative AI applications 4 April 2024, Microsoft Public Preview of Azure OpenAI and AI Search in-app connectors for Logic Apps (Standard) | Azure updates 2 April 2024, Microsoft Microsoft’s Azure AI Search updated with increased storage, vector index size 5 April 2024, InfoWorld Microsoft Azure AI adds storage power, large RAG app support 5 April 2024, VentureBeat Azure AI Studio Now Generally Available, Sporting New Models Both Big and Small 21 May 2024, Visual Studio Magazine provided by Google News	SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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