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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Teradata

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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

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

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

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

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

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Elastic

SAP

formerly Sybase

Teradata

Initial release

2010

1992

1984

Current release

8.6, January 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

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

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted
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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

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

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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