DBMS > CouchDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

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

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Elastic

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

Oracle

Initial release

2005

2010

2017

2016

1980

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

8.6, January 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

yes, in Lua

Transact SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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