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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. IRONdb vs. PieCloudDB vs. SwayDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  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 cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPAn 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
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  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/www.openpie.comswaydb.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.OpenPieSimer PlahaTranswarp
Initial release201020172018
Current release8.6, January 2023V0.10.20, January 20182.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhosted
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
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
PL/SQL
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luauser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyesnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonono
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 integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDAtomic 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 integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardnoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
ElasticsearchIRONdbPieCloudDBSwayDBTranswarp KunDB
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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