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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached

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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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	151.00
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	26.25
Rank	#27	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	25.67
Rank	#28	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Elastic

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2010

2013

2003

Current release

7.8.0, June 2020

2.0.2, November 2020

1.6.9, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Elastic License

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud: Try out the official hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana offering available on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure that's powered by the creators of Elasticsearch.

Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Proprietary protocol

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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

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

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

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Open source Real-time indexsearch, and analysis Horizontally scalable Distributed...
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Time to Value An end-to-end platform, InfluxData is ready to go on the cloud or via...
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Typical application scenarios

Enterprise search (search experiences for your workplace, apps, and websites), observability...
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Instrumentation of every available surface in the material...
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Key customers

Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft,...
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InfluxData has over 630 paying customers, including IBM, PayPal, Siemens Tesla and...
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Market metrics

Public as of October 2018 Distributed workforce with 1900+ employees around the globe...
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Fastest growing database to garnish 17,000 github stars Over 260,000 daily active...
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Licensing and pricing models

The Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) is free and open source...
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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