DBMS > EXASOL vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rockset.com

siridb.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.rockset.com

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Exasol

Progress Software Corporation

Amazon Web Services

Rockset

Cesbit

Initial release

2000

1984

2021

2019

2017

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

Numeric data

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Eventual 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

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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

simple rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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