DBMS > Ingres vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Well established RDBMS

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Actian Corporation

Amazon Web Services

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

TempoIQ

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2021

2009

2011

2012

Current release

11.2, May 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Aiven for OpenSearch: Fully managed open source search and analytics suite. Out-of-the-box integrations get you up and running in a couple of clicks.
STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.

Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

yes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

simple authentication-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
» more

Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
» more

Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
» more

Licensing and pricing models

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

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.