DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. GeoSpock vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. GeoSpock vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

geospock.com

www.hawkular.org

manticoresearch.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Elastic

GeoSpock

Community supported by Red Hat

Manticore Software

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2010

2014

2017

2013

Current release

8.6, January 2023

2.0, September 2019

6.0, February 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

temporal, categorical

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC

HTTP REST

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop 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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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