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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Memgraph vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. searchxml

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Name

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

Description

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

memgraph.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

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

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

memgraph.com/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Social network pages

Developer

Spotify

Memgraph Ltd

Amazon Web Services

Sybase, SAP

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2014

2017

2021

1993

2015

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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