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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. SingleStore

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  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 metricBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.comwww.sequoiadb.comwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guideswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperElasticApache Software FoundationSequoiadb Ltd.SingleStore Inc.
Initial release20102014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201220132013
Current release8.6, January 202310 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 20198.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaScriptC++C++, Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux info64 bit version required
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL-like query languageyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
proprietary protocol using JSONCluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptJavaScriptyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornoyesnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
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 ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoMVCCnoDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple password-based access controlFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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ElasticsearchPostgres-XLPouchDBSequoiadbSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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