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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Linter vs. PouchDB vs. Realm vs. Splice Machine

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
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 metricRDBMS for high security requirementsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchlinter.rupouchdb.comrealm.iosplicemachine.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guidesrealm.io/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperElasticrelex.ruApache Software FoundationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Splice Machine
Initial release20101990201220142014
Current release8.6, January 20237.1.1, June 20193.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
JavaScript.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLView functions in JavaScriptno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes infoJava
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyesyes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop ConnectornoyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integration
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 ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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