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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. InfluxDB vs. Newts vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak TS

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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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Vector DBMS

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Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Elastic

OpenNMS Group

Amazon Web Services

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2010

2013

2014

2021

2015

Current release

8.6, January 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

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

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP REST
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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

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