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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Warp 10 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

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

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

Primary database model

Search engine
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	131.38
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#314	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.warp10.io

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

Technical documentation

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

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Elastic

SenX

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2015

2019

Current release

8.6, January 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes, each node contains all data

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

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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