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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. mSQL vs. TempoIQ vs. Titan

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Name	Elasticsearch  Xexclude from comparison	mSQL Mini SQL  Xexclude from comparison	TempoIQ formerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison	Titan  Xexclude from comparison
			TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.	Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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	mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS	Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)	Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database model	Search engine	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Graph DBMS
Secondary database models	Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 154.33 Rank #8   Overall #1   Search engines	Score 1.68 Rank #134   Overall #66   Relational DBMS
Website	www.elastic.co/­elasticsearch	hughestech.com.au/­products/­msql	tempoiq.com (offline)	titan.thinkaurelius.com
Technical documentation	www.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html			github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
Developer	Elastic	Hughes Technologies	TempoIQ	Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release	2010	1994	2012	2012
Current release	7.8.0, June 2020	4.4, October 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Elastic License	commercial free licenses can be provided	commercial	Open Source Apache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language	Java	C		Java
Server operating systems	All OS with a Java VM	AIX HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris SPARC/x86 Windows		Linux OS X Unix 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	yes	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.	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes All search fields are automatically indexed	yes		yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers	no	no
APIs and other access methods	Java API RESTful HTTP/JSON API	JDBC ODBC	HTTP API	Java API TinkerPop Blueprints TinkerPop Frames TinkerPop Gremlin TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages	.Net Groovy Community Contributed Clients Java JavaScript Perl PHP Python Ruby	C C++ Delphi Java Perl PHP Tcl	C# Java JavaScript Node.js Python Ruby	Clojure Java Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	no	yes
Triggers	yes by using the 'percolation' feature	no	yes Realtime Alerts	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	none		yes via pluggable storage backends
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	none		yes
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	ES-Hadoop Connector	no	no	yes via Faunus, a graph analytics engine
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	none		Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no	yes Relationships in graph
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	no	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	no	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	Memcached and Redis integration	no	no
User concepts Access control		no	simple authentication-based access control	User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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DB-Engines blog posts	PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2017 2 January 2018, Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann Elasticsearch moved into the top 10 most popular database management systems 3 July 2017, Matthias Gelbmann MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking 2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger show all