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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Elasticsearch vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

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

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store

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Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

manticoresearch.com

rocksdb.org

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

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

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Elastic

Manticore Software

Facebook, Inc.

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2023

2010

2017

2013

2016

Current release

1.0, March 2023

8.6, January 2023

6.0, February 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

8.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

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

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, 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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

C++ API
Java API

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

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

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

with TiSpark Connector

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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