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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. FatDB vs. Geode vs. OpenTSDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
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 metricA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeTime 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
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgeode.apache.orgopentsdb.net
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlgeode.apache.org/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperElasticFatCloudOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2010201220022011
Current release8.6, January 20231.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC#JavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMWindowsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like query language (OQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia applicationsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infovia applicationsyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesnono
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, allEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights per client and object definableno

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