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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. GBase vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NuoDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  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 metricWidely 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 frontendA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational 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
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.gbase.cnignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperElasticGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.MicrosoftDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20102004200520122013
Current release8.6, January 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonCC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Windows
hostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesschema-freeyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonoJava, SQL
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes 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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDoptimistic lockingACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes 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 integrationyesnoyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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