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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. FileMaker vs. Manticore Search vs. NSDb

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  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.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
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
Score134.78
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#317  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.claris.com/­filemakermanticoresearch.comnsdb.io
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationmanual.manticoresearch.comnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperElasticClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleManticore Software
Initial release2010198320172017
Current release8.6, January 202319.4.1, November 20216.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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 formatCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
PHPElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Synchronous 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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.Using Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesno

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