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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. SpatiaLite vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. XTDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Elastic

Alessandro Furieri

Transwarp

Juxt Ltd.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2010

2008

2019

2009

Current release

8.6, January 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

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++

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes, each node contains all data

Source-replica replication

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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