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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. OpenSearch vs. QuestDB vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

questdb.io

sphinxsearch.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

questdb.io/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Amazon Web Services

QuestDB Technology Inc

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2004

2021

2014

2001

1987

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.5.0, January 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

SQL with time-series extensions

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

none

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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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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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

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