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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenSearch vs. OushuDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Wide column store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.oushu.com/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Oushu

SAP

Initial release

2012

2021

2010

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

4.0.1, August 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

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. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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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