DBMS > BigObject vs. Kingbase vs. OpenSearch vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Kingbase vs. OpenSearch vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

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

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.kingbase.com.cn

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

vitess.io

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

vitess.io/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Amazon Web Services

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2015

1999

2021

2013

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

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)

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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