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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. FeatureBase vs. Firebird vs. Heroic vs. Manticore Search

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.featurebase.comwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.featurebase.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsspotify.github.io/­heroicmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperElasticMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsFirebird FoundationSpotifyManticore Software
Initial release201020172000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20142017
Current release8.6, January 20232022, May 20225.0.0, January 20246.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL queriesyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLnouser defined functions
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replicationyesSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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