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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. SingleStore vs. TerminusDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. SingleStore vs. TerminusDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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 metricMySQL 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 typeScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score4.02
Rank#74  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.singlestore.comterminusdb.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.singlestore.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#wakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperElasticSingleStore Inc.DataChemist Ltd.Wakanda SAS
Initial release2010201320182012
Current release8.6, January 20238.5, January 202411.0.0, January 20232.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoProlog, RustC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux info64 bit version requiredLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infohash partitioningGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesJournaling Streamsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectorno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes 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 integrationyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesRole-based access controlyes

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