DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. Weaviate vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. Weaviate vs. XTDB

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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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

victoriametrics.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Elastic

Microsoft

VictoriaMetrics

Weaviate B.V.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2014

2018

2019

Current release

8.6, January 2023

v1.91, May 2023

1.19, May 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Clojure
Java

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

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Synchronous replication

yes

yes, each node contains all data

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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