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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. FileMaker vs. InfinityDB vs. LMDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. FileMaker vs. InfinityDB vs. LMDB vs. RocksDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  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.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelSearch engine
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score131.64
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
#1  Vector DBMS
Score42.78
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#386  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#123  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score2.96
Rank#89  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.claris.com/­filemakerboilerbay.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbrocksdb.org
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualwww.lmdb.tech/­docgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperElasticClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleBoiler Bay Inc.SymasFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20101983200220112013
Current release8.6, January 202319.4.1, November 20214.00.9.32, January 20249.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysno
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 formatnonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infovia pluginsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
PHPJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonono
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14nonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononono
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, allImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnonono

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