DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. Manticore Search vs. NSDb

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

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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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources. Forked of and compatible with Sphinx.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	151.25
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.42
Rank	#241	Overall
	#16	Time Series DBMS

Score	26.32
Rank	#27	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#318	Overall
	#15	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

spotify.github.io/heroic/#!/index

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

manticoresearch.com

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic/#!/docs/overview

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.manticoresearch.com/latest/html
github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Elastic

Spotify

Manticore Software

Initial release

2010

2014

2013

2017

Current release

7.8.0, June 2020

2.0.2, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Elastic License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

full-text index on all search fields

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Proprietary protocol

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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