DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. IBM Db2 vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak TS vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. IBM Db2 vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak TS vs. Transbase

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 metricCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2objectbox.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.objectbox.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperElasticIBMObjectBox LimitedOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20101983 infohost version201720151987
Current release8.6, January 202312.1, October 20163.0.0, September 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Sourcecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++ErlangC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoyes, limitedyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoErlangyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)online/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonoyesno
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 ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoyes
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 integrationnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
ElasticsearchIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2ObjectBoxRiak TSTransbase
News

The first On-Device Vector Database: ObjectBox 4.0
16 May 2024

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

Vector Databases for Edge AI
9 August 2023

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
ElasticsearchIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2ObjectBoxRiak TSTransbase
DB-Engines blog posts

PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2017
2 January 2018, Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann

Elasticsearch moved into the top 10 most popular database management systems
3 July 2017, Matthias Gelbmann

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Elasticsearch Enables 400 Criteo Engineers to Search 4 TB of Log Data per Week
15 May 2024, Yahoo Singapore News

Netflix Uses Elasticsearch Percolate Queries to Implement Reverse Searches Efficiently
29 April 2024, InfoQ.com

Splunk vs Elasticsearch | A Comparison and How to Choose
12 January 2024, SentinelOne

Using Elasticsearch to Offload Search and Analytics from DynamoDB: Pros and Cons
10 May 2024, hackernoon.com

Introducing Elasticsearch Vector Database to Azure OpenAI Service On Your Data (Preview)
26 March 2024, insider.govtech.com

provided by Google News

Data migration strategies to Amazon RDS for Db2 | Amazon Web Services
15 May 2024, AWS Blog

IBM Collaborates with AWS to Launch a New Cloud Database Offering, Enabling Customers to Optimize Data ...
27 November 2023, IBM Newsroom

IBM's vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS's cloud bandwagon
29 November 2023, The Register

Precisely says it's smoothing migration of Db2 analytics data to AWS cloud – Blocks and Files
5 April 2024, Blocks & Files

How Amazon RDS for IBM Db2 Showcases the Power of Co-Creation
21 December 2023, Acceleration Economy

provided by Google News

A Quick Look at Open Source Databases for Mobile App Development
29 April 2018, Open Source For You

provided by Google News

Enterprise NoSQL Database for the IoT Becomes Open Source
11 May 2016, ENGINEERING.com

Best open source databases for IoT applications
26 May 2017, Open Source For You

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

AllegroGraph logo

Graph Database Leader for AI Knowledge Graph Applications - The Most Secure Graph Database Available.
Free Download

Present your product here