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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. FileMaker vs. NSDb vs. NuoDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  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.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.claris.com/­filemakernsdb.iowww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturedoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperElasticClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release2010198320172013
Current release8.6, January 202319.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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 formatnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
PHPJava
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoJava, SQL
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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