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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NebulaGraph vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NebulaGraph vs. SAP HANA

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.28
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.75
Rank#128  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
Score32.01
Rank#24  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
www.sap.com/­products/­hana.html
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.nebula-graph.iohelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperMicrosoftVesoft Inc.SAP
Initial release201520192010
Current releaseV12.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono infoalso available as a cloud based service
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAppliance or cloud-service
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIBrowser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsSQLScript, R
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceCausal Clustering using Raft protocolyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationRole-based access controlyes

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