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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch vs. QuestDB vs. Sphinx

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score16.36
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteobjectbox.iowww.progress.com/­openedgegithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
questdb.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iodocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestopensearch.org/­docs/­latestquestdb.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedProgress Software CorporationAmazon Web ServicesQuestDB Technology IncSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20171984202120142001
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 20202.5.0, January 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnono
Triggersnoyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Shardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers and groupsno
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ObjectBoxOpenEdgeOpenSearchQuestDBSphinx
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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