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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. MySQL vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP HANA vs. searchxml

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryWidely used open source RDBMSA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APISearch engineRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score16.36
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score44.69
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgwww.mysql.comgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldev.mysql.com/­docopensearch.org/­docs/­latesthelp.sap.com/­hanawww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunAmazon Web ServicesSAPinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20141995202120102015
Current release8.4.0, April 20242.5.0, January 20232.0 SPS07 (AprilĀ 4, 2023), April 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAppliance or cloud-serviceWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxyesSQLScript, Ryes infoon the application server
Triggersyesyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricShardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyesyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLMySQLOpenSearchSAP HANAsearchxml
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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