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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Ignite vs. Infobright vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  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 metricApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchignite.apache.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperElasticApache Software FoundationIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Microsoft
Initial release20102015200519912010
Current release8.6, January 2023Apache Ignite 2.65.7V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++, Java, .NetCC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalyes
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.noyesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyesTransact SQL
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationyesyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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