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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HugeGraph vs. Solr vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  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 metricCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeGraph DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
solr.apache.orgvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehugegraph.apache.org/­docssolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperElasticGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014BaiduApache Software FoundationVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20102012201820062018
Current release8.6, January 20230.99.6.0, April 2024v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Unix
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'asynchronous Gremlin script jobsJava pluginsno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyesSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornovia hugegraph-sparkspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
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 Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDoptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers, roles and permissionsyes

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