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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. HarperDB vs. IRONdb vs. SwayDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. 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 metricUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageOLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational 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
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#341  Overall
#149  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.harperdb.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/swaydb.simer.auwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundb
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperElasticHarperDBCirconus LLC.Simer PlahaTranswarp
Initial release2010201720172018
Current release8.6, January 20233.1, August 2021V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsC and C++Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentdynamic schemaschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes, in Luanoyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononono
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 consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of specific operationsnoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnonoyes

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