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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. GigaSpaces vs. Manticore Search vs. VoltDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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 metricHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Search engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.gigaspaces.commanticoresearch.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperElasticGigaspaces TechnologiesManticore SoftwareVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2010200020172010
Current release8.6, January 202315.5, September 20206.0, February 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetC++Java, C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, 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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadataCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query languageyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsJava
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes, event driven architecturenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
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 Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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