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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Graphite vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SwayDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 metricData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisperdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhive.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iocwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperElasticChris DavisApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMicrosoftSimer Plaha
Initial release20102006201220152018
Current release8.6, January 20233.1.3, April 2022V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesno
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 indexednoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
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, allnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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