DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Elasticsearch vs. Qdrant vs. RocksDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Elasticsearch vs. Qdrant vs. RocksDB vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

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

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

rocksdb.org

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

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

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

qdrant.tech/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Elastic

Qdrant

Facebook, Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

2010

2021

2013

2008

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

8.6, January 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

Collection-level replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Key-based authentication

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