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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenSearch

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMSWidely used open source RDBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIObject oriented DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score16.36
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.mysql.comobjectbox.iogithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdev.mysql.com/­docdocs.objectbox.ioopensearch.org/­docs/­latest
DeveloperSpotifyOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunObjectBox LimitedAmazon Web Services
Initial release20142014199520172021
Current release8.4.0, April 20242.5.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC and C++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Proprietary native APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntaxnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes
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Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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