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DBMS > DataFS vs. Elasticsearch vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Elasticsearch vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SQream DB

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NameDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.A 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 metricHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Servera GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#354  Overall
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitenewdatabase.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasesqream.com
Technical documentationdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperMobiland AGElasticIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.MicrosoftSQream Technologies
Initial release20182010200520102017
Current release1.1.263, October 20228.6, January 2023V122022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaCC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsWindowsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)schema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesyesyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoTransact SQLuser defined functions in Python
Triggersno, except callback-events from server when changes happenedyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesProprietary Sharding systemShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes, with always 3 replicas availablenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noMemcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlWindows-Profilefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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