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DBMS > EXASOL vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-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 LuceneIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score16.03
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.exasol.comgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesopensearch.org/­docs/­latesthelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperExasolAmazon Web ServicesSAPAlex Kashirin
Initial release2000202120102020
Current release2.5.0, January 20232.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAppliance or cloud-serviceLinux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesSQLScript, Rno
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes
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EXASOLOpenSearchSAP HANASWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
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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