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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Manticore Search vs. Tarantool vs. TigerGraph

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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.In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibrarySpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoremanticoresearch.comwww.tarantool.iowww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoremanual.manticoresearch.comwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperElasticGoogleManticore SoftwareVK
Initial release20102017201720082017
Current release8.6, January 20236.0, February 20232.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeFixed schemaFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes
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 XMLnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageFull-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL-like query language (GSQL)
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
Open binary protocolGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsuser defined functionsLua, C and SQL stored proceduresyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop ConnectorUsing Cloud Dataflownoyes
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 ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes, write ahead loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceno
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.noAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
Role-based access control

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