DBMS > OpenSearch vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV vs. Transbase vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV vs. Transbase vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

ravendb.net

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

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

ravendb.net/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

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

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Amazon Web Services

Hibernating Rhinos

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Transaction Software GmbH

SenX

Initial release

2021

2010

2009

1987

2015

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

5.4, July 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free development license

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Default 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.

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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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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