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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. FileMaker vs. Hive vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 metricFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.claris.com/­filemakerhive.apache.orgprometheus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperElasticClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebookquasardb
Initial release20101983201220152009
Current release8.6, January 202319.4.1, November 20213.1.3, April 20223.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binary
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infovia pluginsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
PHPC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factoryes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenowith Hadoop integration
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 ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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