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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. FatDB vs. Rockset vs. XTDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA 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 metricA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queriesHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchrockset.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.rockset.comwww.xtdb.com/­docsdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperElasticFatCloudRocksetJuxt Ltd.Yugabyte Inc.
Initial release20102012201920192017
Current release8.6, January 20231.19, September 20212.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC#C++ClojureC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMWindowshostedAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyes, extensible-data-notation formatyes
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerRead-only SQL queries, including JOINslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calciteyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HTTP RESTHTTP REST
JDBC
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia applicationsnonoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infovia applicationsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic shardingnoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryesyes, each node contains all dataBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesnonono
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
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDByes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleyes
More information provided by the system vendor
ElasticsearchFatDBRocksetXTDB infoformerly named CruxYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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