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System Properties Comparison MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenSearch vs. OushuDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/marklogic

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.oushu.com/documentation

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

Developer

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Oushu

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2001

2015

2021

1999

Current release

11.0, December 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

4.0.1, August 2020

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

schema-free

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

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query language

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C++

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

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, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

yes

using Azure authentication

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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