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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Sadas Engine vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Cloud 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.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in Data warehouse environments

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	157.69
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	9.32
Rank	#52	Overall
	#10	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#354	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#302	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.sadasengine.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.sadasengine.com/index.php/downloads/documentation-columnar-db

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Elastic

Google

SADAS s.r.l.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2017

2006

2018

Current release

7.8.0, June 2020

8.0

10.0.21, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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