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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. PieCloudDB vs. Prometheus

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  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 WhisperA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational 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
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.openpie.comprometheus.io
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.ioprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperElasticChris DavisMicrosoftOpenPie
Initial release2010200620122015
Current release8.6, January 20232.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaPythonGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
hostedhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesNumeric data only
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 infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yesyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonono
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, allnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic lockingACIDno
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 integrationnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
ElasticsearchGraphiteMicrosoft Azure Table StoragePieCloudDBPrometheus
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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