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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. InfluxDB vs. Trino

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  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 metricDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelSearch engine
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score123.81
Rank#9  Overall
#1  Search engines
#1  Vector DBMS
Score21.78
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score5.34
Rank#60  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewtrino.io
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbtrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
DeveloperElasticTrino Software Foundation
Initial release201020132012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release8.6, January 20232.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednodepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlydepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlydepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornono
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, alldepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonodepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsSQL standard access control
More information provided by the system vendor
ElasticsearchInfluxDBTrino
News

5 Must-Have Python Plugins for InfluxDB 3 Core & Enterprise
13 May 2025

Hack to the Future: InfluxDB 3 Hackathon
5 May 2025

Building Smarter Manufacturing Systems with Bosch Rexroth and InfluxDB
23 April 2025

Build a Time Series Forecasting Pipeline in InfluxDB 3 Without Writing Code
17 April 2025

InfluxDB 3 Core & Enterprise GA: The Next Generation Time Series Platform for Developers is Here
15 April 2025

73: Wrapping Trino packages with a bow
9 April 2025

Core Principles and Design Practices of OLAP Engines
27 March 2025

72: Keeping the lake clean
17 March 2025

Twenty four
3 March 2025

71: Fake it real good
27 February 2025

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