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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Elasticsearch vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. RocksDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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 containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

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

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

rocksdb.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Elastic

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2014

2010

2018

2013

1999

Current release

8.6, January 2023

2023.3, June 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

depending on used data model

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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