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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. InfluxDB vs. Manticore Search vs. NSDb

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.A 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 metricDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO packageTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.74
Rank#67  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#301  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewmanticoresearch.comnsdb.io
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbmanual.manticoresearch.comnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperCockroach LabsElasticManticore Software
Initial release20152010201320172017
Current release24.1.0, May 20248.6, January 20232.7.6, April 20246.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaGoC++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and StringsInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.nononoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.Using Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlsimple rights management via user accountsno
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CockroachDBElasticsearchInfluxDBManticore SearchNSDb
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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