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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenSearch vs. TerminusDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score16.36
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servergithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
terminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iolearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serveropensearch.org/­docs/­latestterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.MicrosoftAmazon Web ServicesDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2015198920212018
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20222.5.0, January 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayesyes
Triggersnoyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
BigObjectMicrosoft SQL ServerOpenSearchTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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