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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. OpenEdge vs. RDFox vs. SQL.JS vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. OpenEdge vs. RDFox vs. SQL.JS vs. Titan

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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 metricApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning enginePort of SQLite to JavaScriptTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.oxfordsemantic.techsql.js.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.oxfordsemantic.techsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperElasticProgress Software CorporationOxford Semantic TechnologiesAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20101984201720122012
Current release8.6, January 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 20206.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyes infoRDF schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JavaScript APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C
Java
JavaScriptClojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4noneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationreplication via a shared file systemnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
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 in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsRoles, resources, and access typesnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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