DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. InfinityDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. InfinityDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed 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 Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Spatial extension of SQLite

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

boilerbay.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Elastic

Boiler Bay Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Transwarp

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2010

2002

2008

2009

Current release

8.6, January 2023

4.0

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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