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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene info

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Key-value store based on Berkeley DB Java Edition

Enterprise Knowledge Graph and graph DBMS with high availability and high performance reasoning

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	150.25
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	20.33
Rank	#32	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.39
Rank	#80	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#167	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Website

www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/index.html

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.oracle.com/cd/NOSQL/index.html

www.stardog.com/docs

Developer

Elastic

Oracle

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2010

2013

2011

2010

Current release

7.3.0, August 2019

1.7.8, August 2019

18.3, November 2018

6.2.3, July 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache Version 2; Elastic License

Open Source info

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source info

Apache V2 for Community Edition, proprietary license for Enterprise Edition

commercial info

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud: Try out the official hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana offering available on AWS and GCP that's powered by the creators of Elasticsearch.

Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X info

through Homebrew

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free info

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

schema-free

optional, scheme definition possible with AVRO or in 'table-style'

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

optional

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SPARQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor info

in enterprise version only

Electable Master-Slave per shard

Master-master replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency info

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts info

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

configurable info

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts info

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open source full-text search and analytics engine....
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Oracle NoSQL Database is a scalable , distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide...
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Stardog is a knowledge graph platform backed by a performant, scalable graph database....
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Competitive advantages

Open source, real-time index, search and analysis, horizontally scalable, distributed,...
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Time to Value An end-to-end platform, InfluxData is ready to go on the cloud or via...
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Data can be modeled as relational-database-style tables, JSON documents, RDF Triples...
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Stardog is uniquely designed to aid in data integration for your complex data. Benefits...
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Typical application scenarios

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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Instrumentation of every available surface in the material...
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Internet of Things where large volume of data needs to be stored and processed very...
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Stardog is frequently used for: Anti-money laundering & fraud monitoring Customer...
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Key customers

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InfluxData has over 630 paying customers, including IBM, PayPal, Siemens Tesla and...
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Large credit card company Airbus NTT Docomo Global rewards company
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Bosch, Dow Jones, Elsevier, Ericsson, Morgan Stanley, NASA, NIH, Nokia, Salesforce,...
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Market metrics

More than 250 million cumulative downloads More than 100,000 community members in...
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Fastest growing database to garnish 17,000 github stars Over 260,000 daily active...
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Oracle NoSQL Database is used by hundreds of companies around the world. Oracle NoSQL...
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Stardog's technology is based on ground-breaking research by our founders cited 10,000+...
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Licensing and pricing models

The Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) is free and open source...
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Oracle NoSQL Database Enterprise Edition can be purchased under the Oracle Commercial...
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A fully-featured 60-day Trial license is available for those testing Stardog; contact...
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