DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenSearch vs. OushuDB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenSearch vs. OushuDB

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.heavy.ai

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Microsoft

Chris Davis

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Oushu

Initial release

2010

2006

2016

2021

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Python

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux
Unix

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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