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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. HarperDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Manticore Search vs. NSDb

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  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 metricHarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO packageTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.55
Rank#243  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#301  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.harperdb.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewmanticoresearch.comnsdb.io
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbmanual.manticoresearch.comnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperElasticHarperDBManticore Software
Initial release20102017201320172017
Current release8.6, January 20233.1, August 20212.7.6, April 20246.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsGoC++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentdynamic schemaschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesNumeric data and StringsInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.nononoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nouser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononono
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, allImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of specific operationsnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.Using Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accountsno
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ElasticsearchHarperDBInfluxDBManticore SearchNSDb
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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