DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP HANA vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP HANA vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Microsoft

SAP

Transwarp

Initial release

2015

2010

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

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