DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. OpenSearch vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. OpenSearch vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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 .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

opensearch.org/docs/latest

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Elastic

FatCloud

Google

Amazon Web Services

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2010

2012

2017

2021

2011

Current release

8.6, January 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

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

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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 search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

via applications

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

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

Immediate Consistency

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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