DBMS > Datastax Enterprise vs. EXASOL vs. OpenSearch vs. RethinkDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. EXASOL vs. OpenSearch vs. RethinkDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.93
Rank	#56	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.exasol.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rethinkdb.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.datastax.com

www.exasol.com/resources

opensearch.org/docs/latest

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

DataStax

Exasol

Amazon Web Services

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

8Kdata

Initial release

2011

2000

2021

2009

2016

Current release

6.8, April 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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 (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Lua
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

range based

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customers

Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metrics

Among the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing models

Annual subscription
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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