DBMS > Hazelcast vs. OpenSearch vs. SpaceTime vs. Splice Machine vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. OpenSearch vs. SpaceTime vs. Splice Machine vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

splicemachine.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Hazelcast

Amazon Web Services

Mireo

Splice Machine

Rocket Software

Initial release

2008

2021

2020

2014

1985

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
C++
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Role-based access control

yes

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

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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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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Licensing and pricing models

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