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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. FileMaker vs. HugeGraph vs. SAP HANA

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Name

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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Elastic

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Baidu

SAP

Initial release

2010

1983

2018

2010

Current release

8.6, January 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

0.9

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

via hugegraph-spark

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Users, roles and permissions

yes

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