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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset vs. Virtuoso

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonVirtuoso  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 LuceneA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBVirtuoso is a multi-model hybrid-RDBMS that supports management of data represented as relational tables and/or property graphs
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSSearch engineDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Relational DBMS
RDF store
Search engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score4.26
Rank#78  Overall
#13  Document stores
#4  Graph DBMS
#2  Native XML DBMS
#42  Relational DBMS
#2  RDF stores
#9  Search engines
Websiteobjectbox.iogithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
rockset.comvirtuoso.openlinksw.com
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.ioopensearch.org/­docs/­latestdocs.rockset.comdocs.openlinksw.com/­virtuoso
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedAmazon Web ServicesRocksetOpenLink Software
Initial release2017202120191998
Current release2.5.0, January 20237.2.11, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++C
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes infoSQL - Standard relational schema
RDF - Quad (S, P, O, G) or Triple (S, P, O)
XML - DTD, XML Schema
DAV - freeform filesystem objects, plus User Defined Types a/k/a Dynamic Extension Type
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyes
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportedyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infoSQL-92, SQL-200x, SQL-3, SQLX
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
GeoSPARQL
HTTP API
JDBC
Jena RDF API
ODBC
OLE DB
RDF4J API
RESTful HTTP API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SOAP webservices
SPARQL 1.1
WebDAV
XPath
XQuery
XSLT
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infoVirtuoso PL
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryesyesChain, star, and bi-directional replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleFine-grained Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in addition to typical coarse-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) according to SQL-standard. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)
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ObjectBoxOpenSearchRocksetVirtuoso
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Virtuoso is a modern multi-model RDBMS for managing data represented as tabular relations...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Performance & Scale — as exemplified by DBpedia and the LOD Cloud it spawned, i.e.,...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Used for — Analytics/BI Conceptual Data Virtualization Enterprise Knowledge Graphs...
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Key customersBroad use across enterprises and governments including — European Union (EU) US Government...
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Market metricsLargest installed-base ​of Multi-Model RDBMS for AI-friendly Knowledge Graphs Platform...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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Available in both Commercial Enterprise and Open Source (GPL v2) Editions Feature...
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