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DBMS > mSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Riak KV

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneWidely used in-process key-value storeDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score1.88
Rank#130  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationopensearch.org/­docs/­latestdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesAmazon Web ServicesOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release1994202119942009
Current release4.4, October 20212.5.0, January 202318.1.40, May 20203.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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 languageCJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)Erlang
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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 infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Go
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
C 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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoErlang
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyes
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 controlnonoyes, using Riak Security
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mSQL infoMini SQLOpenSearchOracle Berkeley DBRiak KV
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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