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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. Elasticsearch vs. ScyllaDB vs. XTDB

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NameDolt  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaA 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 metricCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engine
Vector DBMS
Wide column storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.60
Rank#232  Overall
#106  Relational DBMS
Score123.81
Rank#9  Overall
#1  Search engines
#1  Vector DBMS
Score3.70
Rank#69  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.20
Rank#314  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.scylladb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolthub.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.scylladb.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDoltHub IncElasticScyllaDBJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2018201020152019
Current release8.6, January 2023ScyllaDB Open Source 6.2.0, October 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infocurrently in alpha releaseyesyes, Luano
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.yesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornono
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, allEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupAccess rights for users can be defined per object

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