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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. IRONdb vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SwayDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. IRONdb vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SwayDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 metricA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageOLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.46
Rank#266  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#341  Overall
#149  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/kyligence.io/­kyligence-enterpriseswaydb.simer.auwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundb
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperElasticCirconus LLC.Kyligence, Inc.Simer PlahaTranswarp
Initial release2010201720162018
Current release8.6, January 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesnoyes
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 indexednoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luanoyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornoyesnono
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 consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of operationsACID
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 integrationnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes

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