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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. EsgynDB vs. HarperDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. EsgynDB vs. HarperDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Riak TS

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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 metricEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.esgyn.cnwww.harperdb.ioopentsdb.net
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperElasticEsgynHarperDBcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20102015201720112015
Current release8.6, January 20233.1, August 20213.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaNode.jsJavaErlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesdynamic schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsnoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored ProceduresCustom Functions infosince release 3.1noErlang
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesnono

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