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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. GeoSpock vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. GeoSpock vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed 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 metricSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA multi-model DBMS and application serverIn-memory JavaScript DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgeospock.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.intersystems.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperElasticGeoSpockInterSystemsOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2010199720142009
Current release8.6, January 20232.0, September 20192018.1.4, May 20203.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedtemporal, categoricalyesyes infovia viewsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesView functions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingnonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonoyesyes
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, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoyes, using Riak Security

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