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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. jBASE vs. Prometheus vs. RocksDB

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	134.78
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	7.92
Rank	#51	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

prometheus.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

prometheus.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Elastic

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2010

1991

2015

2013

Current release

8.6, January 2023

5.7

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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