DBMS > BigObject vs. Elasticsearch vs. Greenplum vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Elasticsearch vs. Greenplum vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

bigobject.io

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

greenplum.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.greenplum.org

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Elastic

Pivotal Software Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2015

2010

2005

2021

Current release

8.6, January 2023

7.0.0, September 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

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

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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