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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. GeoMesa vs. Lovefield vs. OushuDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
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 metricGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelSearch engineSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.geomesa.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.oushu.com/­documentationdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperElasticCCRi and othersGoogleOushu
Initial release2010201420142017
Current release8.6, January 20235.0.0, May 20242.1.12, February 20174.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternFull-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoUsing read-only observersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layernoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop ConnectoryesnoHadoop integrationyes
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, alldepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationdepending on storage layeryes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoKerberos, SSL and role based accessRole-based access control

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