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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Sqrrl vs. Stardog vs. XTDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 metricAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchsqrrl.comwww.stardog.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.stardog.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperElasticAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Stardog-UnionJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2010201220102019
Current release8.6, January 20237.3.0, May 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaClojure
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serverlimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javano
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomaking use of Hadoopnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infomaking use of HadoopMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes, each node contains all data
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, allImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)Access rights for users and roles

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