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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. ReductStore vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. ReductStore vs. VelocityDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonReductStore  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed 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 multi-model DBMS and application serverBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDesigned to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#384  Overall
#44  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­reductstore
www.reduct.store
velocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.intersystems.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.reduct.store/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperElasticInterSystemsReductStore LLCVelocityDB Inc
Initial release201019972014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20232011
Current release8.6, January 20232018.1.4, May 202010 R1, October 20181.9, March 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoBusiness Source License 1.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++, RustC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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