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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Interbase vs. MaxDB vs. RocksDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

maxdb.sap.com

rocksdb.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Elastic

Embarcadero

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2010

1984

2013

2014

Current release

8.6, January 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

7.9.10.12, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

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