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DBMS > BigObject vs. Elasticsearch vs. etcd vs. EXASOL vs. Hazelcast

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Elasticsearch vs. etcd vs. EXASOL vs. Hazelcast

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA distributed reliable key-value storeHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A widely adopted in-memory data grid
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.exasol.comhazelcast.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmletcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.exasol.com/­resourceshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.ElasticExasolHazelcast
Initial release2015201020002008
Current release8.6, January 20233.4, August 20195.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategy
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesnouser defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Services
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes, watching key changesyesyes infoEvents
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes infoReplicated Map
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornoyes infoHadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesMemcached and Redis integrationnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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