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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Elasticsearch vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak KV vs. YDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA 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 metricDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperAxibase CorporationElasticThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesYandex
Initial release20132010200920092019
Current release155858.6, January 20232.4.1, August 20203.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesErlangno
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding inforange basedSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesES-Hadoop Connectoryesyesno
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 ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic single-document operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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 integrationnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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