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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. MarkLogic

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Name

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.01
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	152.18
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	9.92
Rank	#44	Overall
	#7	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#4	Search engines

Website

couchdb.apache.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.marklogic.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

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

docs.marklogic.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Elastic

MarkLogic Corp.

Initial release

2005

2010

2001

Current release

3.1.1 , September 2020

7.8.0, June 2020

9.0, 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Elastic License

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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

via views

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

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

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Open source Real-time indexsearch, and analysis Horizontally scalable Distributed...
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The main benefit of MarkLogic is simplicity. By making things simpler, MarkLogic...
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Typical application scenarios

Enterprise search (search experiences for your workplace, apps, and websites), observability...
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Key customers

Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft,...
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MarkLogic has proven results managing mission-critical data with over 1,000 global...
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Market metrics

Public as of October 2018 Distributed workforce with 1900+ employees around the globe...
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MarkLogic is well known within the Fortune 1000, with a strong presence in financial...
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Licensing and pricing models

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