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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Heroic vs. MonetDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle

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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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.monetdb.org

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Elastic

Spotify

MonetDB BV

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle

Initial release

2010

2014

2004

2011

1980

Current release

8.6, January 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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