DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. GridGain vs. JanusGraph vs. MarkLogic vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. GridGain vs. JanusGraph vs. MarkLogic vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

Technical documentation

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.marklogic.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Elastic

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

MarkLogic Corp.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2010

2007

2017

2001

2014

Current release

8.6, January 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

0.6.3, February 2023

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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