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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB vs. Qdrant

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 metricA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.jaguardb.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperElasticCirconus LLC.DataJaguar, Inc.Qdrant
Initial release2010201720152021
Current release8.6, January 2023V0.10.20, January 20183.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesRust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luano
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replicationCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonono
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 consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsKey-based authentication

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