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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Memcached vs. PostGIS vs. Rockset vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  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 metricIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.85
Rank#205  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.memcached.orgpostgis.netrockset.comwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdb
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikipostgis.net/­documentationdocs.rockset.comwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
DeveloperElasticDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalRocksetTencent
Initial release20102003200520192013
Current release8.6, January 20231.6.25, March 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaCCC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesdynamic typingyes
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.noyesno infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocolHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLAutomatic shardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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 ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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