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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. FileMaker vs. SwayDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.claris.com/­filemakerswaydb.simer.auwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperElasticClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSimer PlahaWakanda SAS
Initial release2010198320182012
Current release8.6, January 202319.4.1, November 20212.7.0 (AprilĀ 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infovia pluginsnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
PHPJava
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14nonenone
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, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoyes

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