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System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. OushuDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	17.38
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Search engines
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#380	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	28.65
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.oushu.com/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

The OpenSearch Software Foundation

Oushu

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2021

1987

Current release

2.19, February 2025

4.0.1, August 2020

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C++

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

User concepts

Access control

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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