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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 CouchDBA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
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
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantorigodb.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantorigodb.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperElasticIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Robert Friberg et al
Initial release201020102009 infounder the name LiveDB2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release8.6, January 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangC#C
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesuser defined functions
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesnono
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 integritynonodepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based authorizationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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