DBMS > Heroic vs. Interbase vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Interbase vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Yaacomo

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Spotify

Embarcadero

Amazon Web Services

Sybase, SAP

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2014

1984

2021

1993

2009

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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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