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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Elasticsearch vs. Google BigQuery vs. Linter vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

RDBMS for high security requirements

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery

linter.ru

siridb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Altibase

Elastic

Google

relex.ru

Cesbit

Initial release

1999

2010

1990

2017

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

8.6, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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