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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. ArangoDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

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

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

arangodb.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

docs.arangodb.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba

ArangoDB Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2021

2012

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

schema-free

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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Specific characteristics

Graph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Consolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

Native multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customers

Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing models

Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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