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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. GigaSpaces vs. Memcached vs. RavenDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  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 TransactionsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMS
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
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.gigaspaces.comwww.memcached.orgravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperElasticGigaspaces TechnologiesDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalHibernating Rhinos
Initial release2010200020032010
Current release8.6, January 202315.5, September 20201.6.27, May 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetCC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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 metadata
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes, event driven architecturenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnoyes
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, ANYDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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