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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. OpenSearch vs. RisingWave

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.risingwave.com/database

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

RisingWave Labs

Initial release

2015

2021

2022

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

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

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

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and Roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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