DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/hana

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Microsoft

SAP, Sybase

SAP

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2015

1987

2010

1987

Current release

16.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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