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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. Qdrant vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

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

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

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

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

qdrant.tech/documentation

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

Developer

Amazon Web Services

Qdrant

Rocket Software

Initial release

2001

2021

1985

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
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

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Java API

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

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Collection-level replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

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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