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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSA 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 metricDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engine
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.44
Rank#44  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score123.81
Rank#9  Overall
#1  Search engines
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#320  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score3.21
Rank#83  Overall
#12  Key-value stores
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchquasar.airocksdb.org
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­mastergithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperElasticquasardbFacebook, Inc.
Initial release2018201020092013
Current release1.0.0, June 20248.6, January 20233.14.1, January 20249.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-lessAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectorwith Hadoop integrationno
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, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesMemcached and Redis integrationyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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