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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. LevelDB vs. Riak TS vs. StarRocks

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  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 metricEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperElasticGoogleOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release2010201120152020
Current release8.6, January 20231.23, February 20213.0.0, September 20222.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoBSDOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++ErlangC++, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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 indexednorestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes, limitedyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoErlanguser defined functions
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornoyesno
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 ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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