DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Rockset vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Rockset vs. SurrealDB

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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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.memcached.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

rockset.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.rockset.com

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Elastic

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Rockset

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2010

2003

2014

2019

2022

Current release

8.6, January 2023

1.6.25, March 2024

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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

JSON types

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

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

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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