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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Manticore Search vs. Memcached

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Name	Elasticsearch  Xexclude from comparison	Manticore Search  Xexclude from comparison	Memcached  Xexclude from comparison
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	Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.	In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database model	Search engine	Search engine	Key-value store
Secondary database models	Document store Spatial DBMS	Time Series DBMS using the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 156.00 Rank #8   Overall #1   Search engines	Score 0.08 Rank #323   Overall #20   Search engines	Score 24.56 Rank #33   Overall #4   Key-value stores
Website	www.elastic.co/­elasticsearch	manticoresearch.com	www.memcached.org
Technical documentation	www.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html	manual.manticoresearch.com	github.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
Developer	Elastic	Manticore Software	Danga Interactive originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release	2010	2017	2003
Current release	7.8.0, June 2020	4.2, December 2021	1.6.15, March 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Elastic License	Open Source GPL version 2	Open Source BSD license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Java	C++	C
Server operating systems	All OS with a Java VM	FreeBSD Linux macOS Windows	FreeBSD Linux OS X Unix Windows
Data scheme	schema-free Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent	Fixed schema	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean	no
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.	no	Can index from XML
Secondary indexes	yes All search fields are automatically indexed	yes full-text index on all search fields	no
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	SQL-like query language	no
APIs and other access methods	Java API RESTful HTTP/JSON API	Binary API RESTful HTTP/JSON API RESTful HTTP/SQL API SQL over MySQL	Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages	.Net Groovy Community Contributed Clients Java JavaScript Perl PHP Python Ruby	Elixir Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python	.Net C C++ ColdFusion Erlang Java Lisp Lua OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	user defined functions	no
Triggers	yes by using the 'percolation' feature	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	Sharding Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	Synchronous replication based on Galera library	none Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	ES-Hadoop Connector	no	no
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
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	yes isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.	no
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	Memcached and Redis integration
User concepts Access control		no	yes using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol
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