DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenQM vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenQM vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	134.78
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.geomesa.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

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

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Elastic

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2010

2014

1989

1993

1992

Current release

8.6, January 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.4-12

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

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

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

with some exceptions

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

depending on storage layer

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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