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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. FeatureBase vs. Interbase vs. OpenQM

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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 metricReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.featurebase.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.featurebase.comdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperElasticMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsEmbarcaderoRocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release2010201719841993
Current release8.6, January 20232022, May 2022InterBase 2020, December 20193.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL queriesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesInterbase Change Viewsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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