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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. Infobright vs. NuoDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  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 metricFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cnignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperElasticFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20102000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200420052013
Current release8.6, January 20235.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C, Java, PythonCC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesStandard with numerous extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLuser defined functionsnoJava, SQL
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonono
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes infoMVCC
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.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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