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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  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 metricAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeTime Series 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
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchcloud.google.com/­datastoremachbase.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsmachbase.com/­dbmshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperElasticGoogleMachbaseMicrosoftSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20102008201320121992
Current release8.6, January 2023V8.0, August 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, details hereyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesusing Google App Enginenonoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using Paxosselectable replication factoryes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
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 or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsnooptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyes infovolatile and lookup tablenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple password-based access controlAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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