DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb

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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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Elastic

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

SAP

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2010

2005

2010

2011

Current release

8.6, January 2023

V12

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

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

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

none

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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