DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.heavy.ai

opensearch.org/docs/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2007

2016

2021

1992

Current release

2.1, December 2018

5.10, January 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Aiven for OpenSearch: Fully managed open source search and analytics suite. Out-of-the-box integrations get you up and running in a couple of clicks.

Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
» more

Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
» more

Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
» more

Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.