DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MonetDB

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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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.kingbase.com.cn

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Elastic

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2010

1999

2015

2014

2004

Current release

8.6, January 2023

V8.0, August 2021

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

JSON types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

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

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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