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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. FileMaker vs. Transbase

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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 resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	132.32
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	42.86
Rank	#21	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Elastic

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2010

1983

1987

Current release

8.6, January 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

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

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
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

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