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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  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 Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Oracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
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
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoremanticoresearch.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoremanual.manticoresearch.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperElasticGoogleManticore SoftwareMicrosoftOracle
Initial release20102017201719922007
Current release8.6, January 20236.0, February 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201914.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeFixed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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 indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsuser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynoneyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop ConnectorUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
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 integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infobut no files for transaction loggingconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infooptionally
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 controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.nono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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