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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Kdb vs. RisingWave vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. YottaDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 metricHigh performance Time Series DBMSA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchkx.comwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlyottadb.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlcode.kx.comdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhereyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperElasticKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcRisingWave LabsSAP infoformerly SybaseYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20102000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003202219922001
Current release8.6, January 20233.6, May 20181.2, September 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaqRustC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyesno
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (q)yesyesby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsUDFs in Python or Javayes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infowith viewsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectorno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 integrationyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsUsers and Rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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ElasticsearchKdbRisingWaveSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereYottaDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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