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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. OrigoDB vs. SQL.JS vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 metricA fully ACID in-memory object graph databasePort of SQLite to JavaScriptScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchorigodb.comsql.js.orgterminusdb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperElasticRobert Friberg et alAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersDataChemist Ltd.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20102009 infounder the name LiveDB201220182014
Current release8.6, January 202311.0.0, January 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#JavaScriptProlog, RustC++, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyesyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NETnonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
JavaScript APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.NetJavaScriptJavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infoDomain Eventsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneJournaling Streamsyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynodepending on modelyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based authorizationnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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