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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Machbase Neo vs. PlanetScale vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Machbase Neo vs. PlanetScale vs. RDF4J

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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 metricTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchmachbase.complanetscale.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlmachbase.com/­dbmsplanetscale.com/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperElasticMachbasePlanetScaleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2010201320202004
Current release8.6, January 2023V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infofree test version availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCGoJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoproprietary syntaxyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonono
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, allEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID at shard levelACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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