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

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 metricHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial 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
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.memcached.orgrethinkdb.comrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikirethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperElasticIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Rockset
Initial release20102005200320092019
Current release8.6, January 20231.6.27, May 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaCCC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrydynamic 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 indexedno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.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
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding inforange basedAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonoyesno
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 datanoACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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