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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. GeoMesa vs. Qdrant vs. RethinkDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 metricGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelSearch engineSpatial DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
rethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperElasticCCRi and othersQdrantThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2010201420212009
Current release8.6, January 20235.0.0, May 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScalaRustC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layerCollection-level replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesnoyes
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, alldepending on storage layerEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
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 integrationdepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageKey-based authenticationyes infousers and table-level permissions

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