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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	150.17
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	2.04
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch

www.oracle.com/database/timesten-in-memory-database/index.html

Technical documentation

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

www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/timesten/documentation/index.html

Developer

Elastic

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP info

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2010

1998

Current release

7.3.0, August 2019

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache Version 2; Elastic License

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud: Try out the official hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana offering available on AWS and GCP that's powered by the creators of Elasticsearch.

Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free info

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency info

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities info

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open source full-text search and analytics engine....
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The world's first commercial In-Memory Relational Database offering (launched in...
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Competitive advantages

Open source, real-time index, search and analysis, horizontally scalable, distributed,...
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TimesTen offers many advantages over competing products: Mature product with nearly...
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Typical application scenarios

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TimesTen can be used in a wide range of application areas. Some examples include:...
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Key customers

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Some of our key customers include Ericsson , Telcordia , China Mobile, China Telecom,...
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Market metrics

More than 250 million cumulative downloads More than 100,000 community members in...
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TimesTen is used by thousands of customers in tens of thousands of deployments worldwide...
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Licensing and pricing models

The Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) is free and open source...
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Standard Oracle licence models ; end user and ISV/OEM licence terms available.
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