DBMS > OpenQM vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison OpenQM vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

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

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

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

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

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

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Amazon Web Services

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1993

2021

2009

2020

1998

Current release

3.4-12

2.5.0, January 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

0.5, April 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

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
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

PL/SQL

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

yes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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