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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. BigchainDB vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
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Score	824.29
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	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

www.bigchaindb.com

www.exasol.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.exasol.com/resources

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Exasol

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2017

2016

2000

1989

2021

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

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

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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