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DBMS > ObjectBox vs. OpenSearch vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. OpenSearch vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score16.36
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteobjectbox.iogithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.ioopensearch.org/­docs/­latestwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedAmazon Web ServicesSTS Soft SC
Initial release201720212014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2011
Current release2.5.0, January 202310 R1, October 20184.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++JavaCC#
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryesnone
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, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoMVCCno
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
ObjectBoxOpenSearchPostgres-XLSTSdb
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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