DBMS > etcd vs. InfluxDB vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. InfluxDB vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

A distributed reliable key-value store

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

manticoresearch.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Manticore Software

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2017

2013

Current release

3.4, August 2019

2.7.6, April 2024

6.0, February 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

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