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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Hive vs. Ignite vs. JSqlDb vs. YottaDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB 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 metricdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchhive.apache.orgignite.apache.orgjsqldb.org (offline)yottadb.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeapacheignite.readme.io/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperElasticApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookApache Software FoundationKonrad von BackstromYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20102012201520182001
Current release8.6, January 20233.1.3, April 2022Apache Ignite 2.60.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, Java, .NetC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryes (replicated cache)noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes (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, allEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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