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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. OpenSearch vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.31
Rank	#36	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

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Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

cachelot.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Amazon Web Services

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2015

2021

2000

2020

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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 query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

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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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