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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus vs. Qdrant vs. SpaceTime

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  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 metricHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.hawkular.orgprometheus.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideprometheus.io/­docsqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperElasticCommunity supported by Red HatQdrantMireo
Initial release20102014201520212020
Current release8.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoRustC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednonoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby FederationCollection-level replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
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, allEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 integrationnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoKey-based authenticationyes

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