DB-EnginesExtremeDB for everyone with an RTOSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Solr

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  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 metricDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelSearch engineEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperElasticIBMOracleApache Software Foundation
Initial release2010201720112006
Current release8.6, January 20232.023.3, December 20239.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
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 persistentyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyes 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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoJava plugins
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesActive-active shard replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornowith Hadoop integrationspark-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
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)optimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesyes

More information provided by the system vendor

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 Event StoreOracle NoSQLSolr
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

Elasticsearch replaced Solr as the most popular search engine
12 January 2016, Paul Andlinger

Enterprise Search Engines almost double their popularity in the last 12 months
2 July 2014, Paul Andlinger

The DB-Engines ranking includes now search engines
4 February 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Understanding Elasticsearch Reindexing: When to Reindex, Best Practices and Alternatives
8 May 2024, hackernoon.com

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

The Total Economic Impact™️ of Elasticsearch
8 May 2024, BankInfoSecurity.com

8 Powerful Alternatives to Elasticsearch
25 April 2024, Yahoo Finance

Red Hat and Elastic Fuel Retrieval Augmented Generation for GenAI Use Cases
7 May 2024, businesswire.com

provided by Google News

Advancements in streaming data storage, real-time analysis and machine learning
25 July 2019, IBM

IBM Builds New Ultra-Fast Platform for Hoovering Up and Analyzing Data from Anywhere
31 May 2018, Data Center Knowledge

How IBM Is Turning Db2 into an 'AI Database'
3 June 2019, Datanami

Best cloud databases of 2022
4 October 2022, ITPro

Why a robust data management strategy is essential today | IBM HDM
19 September 2019, Express Computer

provided by Google News

Enhance enterprise data security and trust: Must see Blockchain Technology sessions at Oracle CloudWorld 2023
21 August 2023, blogs.oracle.com

We built a geo-distributed, serverless modern app using the Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service
18 November 2021, blogs.oracle.com

Oracle Beefs Up Its NoSQL Database Offering
3 April 2014, Data Center Knowledge

Oracle Defends Relational DBs Against NoSQL Competitors
25 November 2015, eWeek

Larry Ellison Just Embraced the Enemy. Or Did He?
1 October 2012, WIRED

provided by Google News

SOLR-led walkout demands better conditions for Compass workers
27 February 2024, Daily Northwestern

(SOLR) Technical Pivots with Risk Controls
28 April 2024, Stock Traders Daily

Best Practices from Rackspace for Modernizing a Legacy HBase/Solr Architecture Using AWS Services | Amazon Web ...
9 October 2023, AWS Blog

SOLR hosts teach-in of labor movements at Northwestern
28 January 2024, Daily Northwestern

SearchStax Launches Serverless Solr Service to Accelerate Cloud-Native Application Development
5 April 2023, PR Newswire

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

RaimaDB logo

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

Milvus logo

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

SingleStore logo

The database to transact, analyze and contextualize your data in real time.
Try it today.

Neo4j logo

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

Present your product here