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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenSearch vs. Qdrant vs. Transbase

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score16.03
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servergithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
github.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serveropensearch.org/­docs/­latestqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperMicrosoftAmazon Web ServicesQdrantTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release1989202120211987
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20222.5.0, January 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaRustC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayesyes
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionyesCollection-level replicationSource-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, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft SQL ServerOpenSearchQdrantTransbase
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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