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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. OpenSearch vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Search engine

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Amazon Web Services

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2013

2021

2015

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

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 query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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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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