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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. LokiJS vs. PostGIS vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. LokiJS vs. PostGIS vs. Tigris

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  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 metricIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpostgis.netwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpostgis.net/­documentationwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperElasticTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release2010201420052022
Current release8.6, January 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JavaScript APICLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesno
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, allnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and roles

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