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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SiriDB vs. SQLite

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	134.78
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	2.96
Rank	#103	Overall
	#18	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

siridb.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.siridb.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Elastic

Circonus LLC.

Oracle

Cesbit

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2010

2017

2011

2017

2000

Current release

8.6, January 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

23.3, December 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

optional

yes

Numeric data

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

simple rights management via user accounts

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