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System Properties Comparison gStore vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transbase

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Name	gStore  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Transbase  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.	Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database model	Graph DBMS RDF store	Search engine	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models		Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.14 Rank #342   Overall #34   Graph DBMS #16   RDF stores	Score 5.52 Rank #59   Overall #6   Search engines		Score 0.17 Rank #334   Overall #148   Relational DBMS
Website	en.gstore.cn	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentation	en.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocs	learn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search		www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developer		Microsoft	Sybase, SAP	Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release	2016	2015	1993	1987
Current release	1.2, November 2023	V1		Transbase 8.3, 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source BSD	commercial	commercial	commercial free development license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	C++			C and C++
Server operating systems	Linux	hosted	Linux Windows	FreeBSD Linux macOS Solaris Windows
Data scheme	schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	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	no
Secondary indexes		yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP API SPARQL 1.1	RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages	C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python	C# Java JavaScript Python	Delphi Perl PHP	C C# C++ Java JavaScript Kotlin Objective-C PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	yes	yes
Triggers		no	yes	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 Implicit feature of the cloud service	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity		no	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes	no	ACID	yes
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported	yes using Azure authentication	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	gStore	Microsoft Azure AI Search	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Transbase
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 Azure AI Studio Now Generally Available, Sporting New Models Both Big and Small 21 May 2024, Visual Studio Magazine Microsoft Azure AI adds storage power, large RAG app support 5 April 2024, VentureBeat 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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