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System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. OrigoDB vs. Riak TS vs. ScyllaDB

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NameOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneWidely used in-process key-value storeA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score16.36
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlorigodb.comwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationopensearch.org/­docs/­latestdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperAmazon Web ServicesOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleRobert Friberg et alOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesScyllaDB
Initial release202119942009 infounder the name LiveDB20152015
Current release2.5.0, January 202318.1.40, May 20203.0.0, September 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C#ErlangC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoUser defined using .NET types and collectionsnoyes
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.yes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesrestrictedyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoyes, limitedSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.NetC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesErlangyes, Lua
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes infoDomain Eventsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
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, allEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelno infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based authorizationnoAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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OpenSearchOracle Berkeley DBOrigoDBRiak TSScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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