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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Elasticsearch vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

All 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

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	128.79
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Mobiland AG

Elastic

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2018

2010

1994

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

8.6, January 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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 query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Hadoop integration

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

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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