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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Hypertable vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Stardog vs. STSdb

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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 metricAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelSearch engineWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
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
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.stardog.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperElasticHypertable Inc.InterSystemsStardog-UnionSTS Soft SC
Initial release20102009201820102011
Current release8.6, January 20230.9.8.11, March 20162023.3, June 20237.3.0, May 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyesno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javano
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication in HA-Clusternone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesnonono
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 in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 controlnoyesAccess rights for users and rolesno
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