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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. OpenSearch vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Altibase

Amazon Web Services

Percona

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1999

2021

2008

2012

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

8.0.36-28, 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

schema-free

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 search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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