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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. GBase vs. HarperDB vs. Hazelcast vs. jBASE

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  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 metricWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.A widely adopted in-memory data gridA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.gbase.cnwww.harperdb.iohazelcast.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperElasticGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.HarperDBHazelcastRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release20102004201720081991
Current release8.6, January 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.1, August 20215.3.6, November 20235.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonNode.jsJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesdynamic schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyesoptional
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.noyesnoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query languageEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnoyes infoEventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyes infoReplicated Mapyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornoyesno
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 or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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