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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NuoDB vs. OpenSearch vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

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

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

doc.nuodb.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2010

2013

2021

2017

Current release

V12

2.5.0, January 2023

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

depending on used data model

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

SQL-like query language

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Java, SQL

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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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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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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