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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Hazelcast vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store info

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	153.84
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	9.72
Rank	#42	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	6.34
Rank	#60	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

hazelcast.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

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

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Elastic

Hazelcast

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2010

2008

2001

Current release

7.8.0, June 2020

4.0.3, September 2020

3.2.1, January 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache Version 2; Elastic License

Open Source info

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source info

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud: Try out the official hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana offering available on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure that's powered by the creators of Elasticsearch.

Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free info

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 info

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

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl info

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby info

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Events

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency info

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user info

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities info

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts info

Access control

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Open source Real-time indexsearch, and analysis Horizontally scalable Distributed...
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Hazelcast has an optimized, multi-threaded architecture that enables the highest...
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Typical application scenarios

Enterprise search (search experiences for your workplace, apps, and websites), observability...
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Hazelcast powers many types of large-scale, data processing applications. A sample...
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Key customers

Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft,...
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Hazelcast customers include 50 of the world’s largest financial services companies,...
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Market metrics

Public as of October 2018 Distributed workforce with 1900+ employees around the globe...
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Licensing and pricing models

The Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) is free and open source...
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Hazelcast provides both open source and commercial software. The open source offering...
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