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

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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 high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

rocksdb.org

trino.io

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Elastic

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Symas

Facebook, Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2010

1983

2011

2013

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

8.6, January 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

0.9.32, January 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

schema-free

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

depending on connected data-source

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

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

.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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

SQL standard access control

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