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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 metricFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Oracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.firebirdsql.orggeospock.commanticoresearch.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperElasticFirebird FoundationGeoSpockManticore SoftwareOracle
Initial release20102000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20172007
Current release8.6, January 20235.0.0, January 20242.0, September 20196.0, February 202314.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Java, JavascriptC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nonoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyestemporal, categoricalyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBCBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnonoyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic shardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononono
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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