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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. InterSystems Caché vs. mSQL vs. SQL.JS vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. InterSystems Caché vs. mSQL vs. SQL.JS vs. TempoIQ

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be 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 servermSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSPort of SQLite to JavaScriptScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsql.js.orgtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.intersystems.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperElasticInterSystemsHughes TechnologiesAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersTempoIQ
Initial release20101997199420122012
Current release8.6, January 20232018.1.4, May 20204.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentdepending on used data modelyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonono
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnonoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnonenone
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 Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno 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 integrationyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnonosimple authentication-based access control

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