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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Graph Engine vs. OpenQM vs. Quasardb vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Graph Engine vs. OpenQM vs. Quasardb vs. Trafodion

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded 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 metricA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Multivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational 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
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.graphengine.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmquasar.aitrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdoc.quasar.ai/­mastertrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperElasticMicrosoftRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsquasardbApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20102010199320092014
Current release8.6, January 20233.4-123.14.1, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava.NET and CC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM.NETAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyes infowith some exceptionsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningyesSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornowith Hadoop integrationyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
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 persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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