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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 simplicityRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Port of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rdf4j.orgsql.js.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperElasticCirconus LLC.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer Plaha
Initial release20102017200420122018
Current release8.6, January 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesno
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 indexednoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JavaScript 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
PHP
Python
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luayesnono
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenonenone
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 nodesnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
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 controlnononono

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