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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. InterSystems Caché vs. mSQL vs. Splunk vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. InterSystems Caché vs. mSQL vs. Splunk vs. TempoIQ

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  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 RDBMSAnalytics Platform for Big DataScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineTime 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
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.splunk.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.intersystems.comdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperElasticInterSystemsHughes TechnologiesSplunk Inc.TempoIQ
Initial release20101997199420032012
Current release8.6, January 20232018.1.4, May 20204.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC
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
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTHTTP 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
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyesno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnoyesyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
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 ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoAccess rights for users and rolessimple authentication-based access control

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