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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Heroic vs. Manticore Search vs. MariaDB vs. OpenTSDB

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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

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

github.com/spotify/heroic

manticoresearch.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

manual.manticoresearch.com

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Elastic

Spotify

Manticore Software

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2010

2014

2017

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2011

Current release

8.6, January 2023

6.0, February 2023

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

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

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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.

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

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

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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