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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Warp 10

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  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 featuresTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series 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
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#349  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantorigodb.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantorigodb.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperElasticIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Robert Friberg et alSenX
Initial release201020102009 infounder the name LiveDB2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2015
Current release8.6, January 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC#CJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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 functionalityno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
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
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
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 functionsyes infoWarpScript
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes infoDomain Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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, allEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based authorizationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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