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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. Vitess

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 metricRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
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
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperElasticOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologiesinformationpartners gmbhThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2010201520152013
Current release8.6, January 20233.0.0, September 20221.015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
WindowsDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes, limitednoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesErlangyes infoon the application serveryes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesnono
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between datasets can be storednoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonomultiple readers, single writerACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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