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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. HarperDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SQL.JS

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 metricUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.harperdb.iomanticoresearch.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencesql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docsmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencesql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperElasticHarperDBManticore SoftwareOracleAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20102017201720072012
Current release8.6, January 20233.1, August 20216.0, February 202314.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsC++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentdynamic schemaFixed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesInt, 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 XMLnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1user defined functionsnono
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenonoyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononono
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
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of specific operationsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infooptionallyno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno

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