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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. OpenSearch vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

opentsdb.net

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

opensearch.org/docs/latest

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Amazon

Amazon Web Services

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2021

2011

1992

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

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

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate 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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

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,...
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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

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

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