DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RethinkDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RethinkDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

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

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

rethinkdb.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

rethinkdb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Elastic

Percona

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2010

2015

2009

2013

1992

Current release

8.6, January 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2.4.1, August 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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