DBMS > atoti vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenSearch vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenSearch vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

atoti.io

cloud.google.com/datastore

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.heavy.ai

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

ActiveViam

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2008

2016

2021

2015

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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, details here

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

using Google App Engine

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

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

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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 based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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