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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Immudb vs. Infobright vs. Memcached vs. Rockset

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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 metricAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.24
Rank#305  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.memcached.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.immudb.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.rockset.com
DeveloperElasticCodenotaryIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalRockset
Initial release20102020200520032019
Current release8.6, January 20231.2.3, April 20221.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoCCC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnodynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like syntaxyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes
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, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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