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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene info

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.

Microsofts relational DBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	151.55
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	46.66
Rank	#23	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1037.64
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Elastic

FileMaker

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Initial release

2010

1983

1989

Current release

7.8.0, June 2020

19, May 2020

SQL Server 2019, November 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache Version 2; Elastic License

commercial

commercial info

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud: Try out the official hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana offering available on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure that's powered by the creators of Elasticsearch.

Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

iOS
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free info

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby info

since Version 14

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency info

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts info

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Elasticsearch is an open source search and analytics engine. As the heart of the...
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Competitive advantages

Open source Real-time indexsearch, and analysis Horizontally scalable Distributed...
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Typical application scenarios

Enterprise search (search experiences for your workplace, apps, and websites), observability...
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Key customers

Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft,...
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Market metrics

Public as of October 2018 Distributed workforce with 1900+ employees around the globe...
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Licensing and pricing models

The Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) is free and open source...
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