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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Google BigQuery vs. Linter vs. SAP HANA vs. SiriDB

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

RDBMS for high security requirements

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery

linter.ru

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

siridb.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Elastic

Google

relex.ru

SAP

Cesbit

Initial release

2010

1990

2010

2017

Current release

8.6, January 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

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