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System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL vs. Tarantool vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

postgis.net

spark.apache.org/sql

www.tarantool.io

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

postgis.net/documentation

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Amazon Web Services

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2021

2005

2014

2008

1987

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

2.10.0, May 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Open binary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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