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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. FoundationDB vs. IRONdb vs. KairosDB vs. TypeDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines 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 metricOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbtypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedkairosdb.github.iotypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperElasticFoundationDBCirconus LLC.Vaticle
Initial release20102013201720132016
Current release8.6, January 20236.2.28, November 2020V0.10.20, January 20181.2.2, November 20182.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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 indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagesupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin SQL-layer onlyyes, in Luanono
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
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, allLinearizable consistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynonono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 integrationnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple password-based access controlyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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ElasticsearchFoundationDBIRONdbKairosDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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