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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Hive vs. MonetDB vs. Transbase

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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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	155.08
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	78.66
Rank	#17	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.79
Rank	#129	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#328	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

hive.apache.org

www.monetdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Elastic

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

MonetDB BV

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2010

2012

2004

1987

Current release

7.8.0, June 2020

3.1.2, August 2019

Jul2021-SP2, July 2021

Transbase 8.4, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

query execution via MapReduce

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Column-store In-memory optimized GeoSpatial support JSON document support
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Competitive advantages

Scalable architecture - vertical data organization and in-memory optimization guarantee...
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Typical application scenarios

Analytical database, Data warehouse, OLAP Data mining Scientific database
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Key customers

Numascale , Spinque , SecurActive , CHS , NOZHUP
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Licensing and pricing models

Free and open-source software, Mozilla Public License 2.0 Commercial support available
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