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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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	149.69
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	13.99
Rank	#37	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

Elastic

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Initial release

2010

2012

Current release

7.7.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache Version 2; Elastic License

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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 AWS, GCP and Azure that's powered by the creators of Elasticsearch.

Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free info

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

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Eventual Consistency info

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency info

if the client is online

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

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

yes

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

User concepts info

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open source full-text search and analytics engine....
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Competitive advantages

Open source, real-time index, search and analysis, horizontally scalable, distributed,...
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Typical application scenarios

Search, logging, security, metrics, maps and business analytics use cases.
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Key customers

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Market metrics

More than 400 million cumulative downloads More than 100,000 community members in...
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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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