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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. IRONdb vs. OrigoDB vs. SQL.JS vs. TerminusDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 fully ACID in-memory object graph databasePort of SQLite to JavaScriptScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/origodb.comsql.js.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedorigodb.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperElasticCirconus LLC.Robert Friberg et alAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release201020172009 infounder the name LiveDB20122018
Current release8.6, January 2023V0.10.20, January 201811.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C#JavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsUser 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 .NETnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
JavaScript APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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
.NetJavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luayesnoyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes infoDomain Eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononono
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 nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based authorizationnoRole-based access control

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