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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. InfinityDB vs. Linter vs. PouchDB vs. SiriDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceRDBMS for high security requirementsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchboilerbay.comlinter.rupouchdb.comsiridb.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperElasticBoiler Bay Inc.relex.ruApache Software FoundationCesbit
Initial release20102002199020122017
Current release8.6, January 20234.07.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesnoyes infoNumeric data
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
JavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonoyesno
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 infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
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 controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple rights management via user accounts

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