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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. GBase vs. Heroic vs. InfinityDB vs. Manticore Search

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  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 metricWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time 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
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.gbase.cngithub.com/­spotify/­heroicboilerbay.commanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperElasticGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.SpotifyBoiler Bay Inc.Manticore Software
Initial release20102004201420022017
Current release8.6, January 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c4.06.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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.noyesnonoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#JavaElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonouser defined functions
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera library
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnono

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