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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. GigaSpaces vs. Kinetica vs. NebulaGraph vs. Tkrzw

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  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 metricHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.gigaspaces.comwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
dbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.kinetica.comdocs.nebula-graph.io
DeveloperElasticGigaspaces TechnologiesKineticaVesoft Inc.Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20102000201220192020
Current release8.6, January 202315.5, September 20207.1, August 20210.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetC, C++C++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesStrong typed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes, event driven architectureyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replicationCausal Clustering using Raft protocolnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
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 Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRole-based access controlno
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ElasticsearchGigaSpacesKineticaNebulaGraphTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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