DBMS > Hive vs. KeyDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. KeyDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.keydb.dev

opensearch.org/docs/latest

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Amazon Web Services

quasardb

Initial release

2012

2019

2021

2009

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

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

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

simple password-based access control and ACL

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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