DBMS > NSDb vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

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Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

nsdb.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rocksdb.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon Web Services

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2017

2021

2009

2013

2018

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Java

Erlang

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Using Apache Lucene

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

yes, using Riak Security

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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