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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Solr

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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 metricDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Application development environment with integrated database management systemA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.progress.com/­openedgesolr.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantkairosdb.github.iodocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperElasticIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Progress Software CorporationApache Software Foundation
Initial release20102010201319842006
Current release8.6, January 20231.2.2, November 2018OpenEdge 12.2, March 20209.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nononoyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyes infoclose to SQL 92Solr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyesJava plugins
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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 integrationnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access controlUsers and groupsyes

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