DBMS > BaseX vs. Hypertable vs. OpenSearch vs. TerminusDB vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Hypertable vs. OpenSearch vs. TerminusDB vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
RDF store

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

terminusdb.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

opensearch.org/docs/latest

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Hypertable Inc.

Amazon Web Services

DataChemist Ltd.

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2007

2009

2021

2018

2017

Current release

10.7, August 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.5.0, January 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Prolog, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

C++ API
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

Journaling Streams

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Role-based access control

yes

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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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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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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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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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