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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. LeanXcale vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Actian Corporation

LeanXcale

Amazon Web Services

Oracle

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2015

2021

2011

1999

Current release

11.2, May 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

24.1, May 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

yes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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