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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Graph Engine vs. Ignite vs. SWC-DB vs. TimesTen

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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 metricA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.graphengine.ioignite.apache.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperElasticMicrosoftApache Software FoundationAlex KashirinOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20102010201520201998
Current release8.6, January 2023Apache Ignite 2.60.5, April 202111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava.NET and CC++, Java, .NetC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM.NETLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noPL/SQL
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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