DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. GridDB vs. LeanXcale vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. GridDB vs. LeanXcale vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sphinx

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 metricScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesOracles in-memory data grid solutionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgriddb.netwww.leanxcale.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.griddb.netdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperElasticToshiba CorporationLeanXcaleOracleSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20102013201520072001
Current release8.6, January 20235.1, August 202214.1, August 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yes infothrough Apache DerbynoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop ConnectorConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnonono
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 within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at container levelACIDconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno
More information provided by the system vendor
ElasticsearchGridDBLeanXcaleOracle CoherenceSphinx
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
» more
Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
» more
Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
» more
Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
» more
Market metricsGitHub trending repository
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
ElasticsearchGridDBLeanXcaleOracle CoherenceSphinx
DB-Engines blog posts

PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2017
2 January 2018, Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann

Elasticsearch moved into the top 10 most popular database management systems
3 July 2017, Matthias Gelbmann

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

show all

The DB-Engines ranking includes now search engines
4 February 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Elasticsearch Enables 400 Criteo Engineers to Search 4 TB of Log Data per Week
15 May 2024, Yahoo Singapore News

Netflix Uses Elasticsearch Percolate Queries to Implement Reverse Searches Efficiently
29 April 2024, InfoQ.com

Splunk vs Elasticsearch | A Comparison and How to Choose
12 January 2024, SentinelOne

Using Elasticsearch to Offload Search and Analytics from DynamoDB: Pros and Cons
10 May 2024, hackernoon.com

Introducing Elasticsearch Vector Database to Azure OpenAI Service On Your Data (Preview)
26 March 2024, insider.govtech.com

provided by Google News

General Availability of GridDB® 5.5 Enterprise Edition ~Enhancing the efficiency of IoT system development and ...
16 January 2024, global.toshiba

Toshiba launches cloudy managed IoT database service running its own GridDB
8 April 2021, The Register

GridDB Use case Large-scale high-speed processing of smart meter data following the deregulation of electrical power ...
1 November 2020, global.toshiba

Toshiba to Open Source GridDB(R)'s SQL Interface, Aims to Accelerate Open Innovation | TOSHIBA DIGITAL ...
17 June 2020, global.toshiba

Leveraging Open Source Tools for IoT - open source for you
19 February 2020, Open Source For You

provided by Google News

Microservices with Major New Coherence and Helidon Releases
9 August 2022, blogs.oracle.com

New solutions for Oracle WebLogic on Azure Virtual Machines
1 April 2021, Microsoft

Nike achieves scalability and performance with Oracle Coherence & Exadata
20 December 2012, blogs.oracle.com

Hazelcast takes on proprietary Oracle in the In-Memory arena
17 June 2014, DatacenterDynamics

GridGain: Product Overview and Analysis
5 June 2019, eWeek

provided by Google News

Switching From Sphinx to MkDocs Documentation — What Did I Gain and Lose
2 February 2024, Towards Data Science

Manticore is a Faster Alternative to Elasticsearch in C++
25 July 2022, hackernoon.com

Perplexity AI: From Its Use To Operation, Everything You Need To Know About Googles Newest Challenger
11 January 2024, Free Press Journal

The Pirate Bay was recently down for over a week due to a DDoS attack
29 October 2019, The Hacker News

How to Build 600+ Links in One Month
4 September 2020, Search Engine Journal

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

AllegroGraph logo

Graph Database Leader for AI Knowledge Graph Applications - The Most Secure Graph Database Available.
Free Download

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Present your product here