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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Elastic

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2010

2013

2015

2017

Current release

8.6, January 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

1.0

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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