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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Interbase vs. MaxDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Interbase vs. MaxDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Trafodion

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 metricLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemaxdb.sap.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemaxdb.sap.com/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperElasticEmbarcaderoSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997SAP, formerly SybaseApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20101984198419942014
Current release8.6, January 2023InterBase 2020, December 20197.9.10.12, February 202416.1 SPS04, April 20192.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP 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#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop ConnectornonoHadoop integrationyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
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 integrationyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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