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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J vs. SiteWhere

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 metricLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelSearch engineObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
RDF storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
rdf4j.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.objectbox.iordf4j.org/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperElasticObjectBox LimitedSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SiteWhere
Initial release2010201720042010
Current release8.6, January 20234.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyes infoRDF Schemaspredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary native APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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