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

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

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

depending on model

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Role based authorization

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Specific characteristics

eXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

eXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customers

Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

With hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing models

For server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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