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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 info

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	149.69
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	21.18
Rank	#30	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	24.81
Rank	#27	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 info

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2010

2013

2003

Current release

7.7.0, May 2020

1.7.10, February 2020

1.6.0, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache Version 2; Elastic License

Open Source info

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source info

BSD license

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud: Try out the official hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana offering available on AWS, GCP and Azure that's powered by the creators of Elasticsearch.

Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X info

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free info

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 info

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 info

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor info

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 info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency info

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

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

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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 info

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Open source, real-time index, search and analysis, horizontally scalable, distributed,...
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Typical application scenarios

Search, logging, security, metrics, maps and business analytics use cases.
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Key customers

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InfluxData has over 630 paying customers, including IBM, PayPal, Siemens Tesla and...
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Market metrics

More than 400 million cumulative downloads More than 100,000 community members in...
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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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