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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Kinetica vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached vs. Newts

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  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 metricFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.kinetica.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.memcached.orgopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikigithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperElasticKineticaGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOpenNMS Group
Initial release20102012201420032014
Current release8.6, January 20237.1, August 20212.1.12, February 20171.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++JavaScriptCJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononono
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 Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databasenoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno

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