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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. OpenSearch vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.69
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	15.65
Rank	#38	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.55
Rank	#253	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

www.kinetica.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Kinetica

Amazon Web Services

Percona

Initial release

2012

2021

2015

Current release

7.1, August 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights for users and roles

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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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