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System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelSearch engine
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.38
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Search engines
#2  Vector DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#145  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#191  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
opentsdb.netwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationopensearch.org/­docs/­latestopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperThe OpenSearch Software Foundationcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release202120111984
Current release2.19, February 20257.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlno

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