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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

RDBMS for high security requirements

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	149.08
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#339	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch

linter.ru/en

Technical documentation

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

Developer

Elastic

relex.ru/en

Initial release

2010

1990

Current release

7.3.0, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache Version 2; Elastic License

commercial

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 AWS and GCP that's powered by the creators of Elasticsearch.

Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free info

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

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

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open source full-text search and analytics engine....
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Competitive advantages

Open source, real-time index, search and analysis, horizontally scalable, distributed,...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

More than 250 million cumulative downloads More than 100,000 community members in...
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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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