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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Speedb vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.21
Rank	#315	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.speedb.io

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Amazon Web Services

Speedb

Initial release

2018

2021

2020

2009

Current release

0.10, February 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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Open source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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