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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. NSDb vs. Oracle vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus

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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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Widely used RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS

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Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

nsdb.io

www.oracle.com/database

postgis.net

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.oracle.com/en/database

postgis.net/documentation

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Elastic

Oracle

Initial release

2010

2017

1980

2005

2015

Current release

8.6, January 2023

23c, September 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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