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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. GeoMesa vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
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Score5.61
Rank#60  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
github.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.objectbox.ioopensearch.org/­docs/­latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperCCRi and othersObjectBox LimitedAmazon Web ServicesSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20182014201720211992
Current release1.0.0, June 20245.0.1, July 20244.0 (May 2024)2.5.0, January 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageC++ScalaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsserver-lessAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnononoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layernoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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DuckDBGeoMesaObjectBoxOpenSearchSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere
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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