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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LokiJS vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LokiJS vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  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 metricGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSDocument storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score2.97
Rank#92  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score2.25
Rank#112  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperElasticGoogleIBMRocket Software
Initial release20102015201420141985
Current release8.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnooptional
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JavaScript APIJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoPL/SQL, SQL PLView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesyesyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesnoyesno
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 consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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