DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Fauna vs. H2GIS vs. Hyprcubd vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Fauna vs. H2GIS vs. Hyprcubd vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines 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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Spatial extension of H2

Serverless Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

fauna.com

www.h2gis.org

hyprcubd.com (offline)

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.fauna.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Elastic

Fauna, Inc.

CNRS

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2010

2014

2013

2021

Current release

8.6, January 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (https)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

based on H2

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

based on H2

token access

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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