DBMS > HBase vs. KeyDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. KeyDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.keydb.dev

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Amazon Web Services

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2008

2019

2021

2006

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

simple password-based access control and ACL

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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