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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Graphite vs. OpenSearch vs. Sadas Engine vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sadasengine.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

graphite.readthedocs.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Elastic

Chris Davis

Amazon Web Services

SADAS s.r.l.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2010

2006

2021

2006

2008

Current release

8.6, January 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

8.0

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Sockets

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

none

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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