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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Quasardb vs. SwayDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 metricSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOracles in-memory data grid solutionDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelSearch engineSearch engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencequasar.aiswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperElasticMicrosoftOraclequasardbSimer Plaha
Initial release20102015200720092018
Current release8.6, January 2023V114.1, August 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes infoLive Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonowith Hadoop integrationno
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
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoconfigurableACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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