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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. JaguarDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name	Elasticsearch  Xexclude from comparison	JaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison	SiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
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	Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications	M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database model	Search engine	Key-value store	Time Series DBMS
Secondary database models	Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 154.33 Rank #8   Overall #1   Search engines	Score 0.02 Rank #343   Overall #51   Key-value stores	Score 0.00 Rank #356   Overall #32   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.elastic.co/­elasticsearch	www.datajaguar.com	sitewhere.io
Technical documentation	www.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html	www.datajaguar.com/­support.php	sitewhere.io/­docs/­2.1.0
Developer	Elastic	DataJaguar, Inc.	SiteWhere
Initial release	2010	2015	2010
Current release	7.8.0, June 2020	2.9.4 September 2018
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Elastic License	Open Source GPL V3.0	Open Source Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Java	C++ the server part. Clients available in other languages	Java
Server operating systems	All OS with a Java VM	Linux	Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	schema-free Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent	yes	predefined scheme
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes All search fields are automatically indexed	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented but no views, foreign keys, triggers	no
APIs and other access methods	Java API RESTful HTTP/JSON API	JDBC ODBC	HTTP REST
Supported programming languages	.Net Groovy Community Contributed Clients Java JavaScript Perl PHP Python Ruby	C C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby Scala
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no
Triggers	yes by using the 'percolation' feature	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	Sharding	Sharding based on HBase
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	Multi-source replication	selectable replication factor based on HBase
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	ES-Hadoop Connector	no	no
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	Eventual Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	no	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	Memcached and Redis integration	no	no
User concepts Access control		rights management via user accounts	Users with fine-grained authorization concept
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DB-Engines blog posts	PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2017 2 January 2018, Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann Elasticsearch moved into the top 10 most popular database management systems 3 July 2017, Matthias Gelbmann MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking 2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger show all