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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenSearch vs. TerminusDB vs. Vitess

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMSDocument store
RDF store
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#202  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasegithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
terminusdb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlopensearch.org/­docs/­latestterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#vitess.io/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftAmazon Web ServicesDataChemist Ltd.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2010202120182013
Current releaseV122.5.0, January 202311.0.0, January 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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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 languageC++JavaProlog, RustGo
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
JavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLyesyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableyesJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureOpenSearchTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistVitess
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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