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System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. QuestDB vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Trafodion

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NameOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score16.03
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
questdb.ioravendb.netgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationopensearch.org/­docs/­latestquestdb.io/­docsravendb.net/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAmazon Web ServicesQuestDB Technology IncHibernating RhinosAlex KashirinApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20212014201020202014
Current release2.5.0, January 20235.4, July 20220.5, April 20212.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)ShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
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 ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID for single-table writesACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infothrough memory mapped filesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAuthorization levels configured per client per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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OpenSearchQuestDBRavenDBSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseTrafodion
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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