DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Interbase vs. NuoDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Interbase vs. NuoDB vs. SAP HANA 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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector 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	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/hana

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Elastic

Embarcadero

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SAP

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2010

1984

2013

2010

2014

Current release

8.6, January 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a 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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

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.

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

JDBC
ODBC

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Java, SQL

SQLScript, R

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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