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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Interbase vs. PieCloudDB vs. RocksDB

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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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.openpie.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Elastic

Embarcadero

OpenPie

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2010

1984

2013

Current release

8.6, January 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.1, January 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

schema-free

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

yes

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

yes

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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