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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Elasticsearch vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	134.78
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Website

bigobject.io

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Elastic

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2015

2010

2014

Current release

8.6, January 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

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

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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