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System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. RethinkDB vs. SingleStore vs. SwayDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rethinkdb.com

www.singlestore.com

swaydb.simer.au

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Amazon Web Services

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SingleStore Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2021

2009

2013

2018

2009

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Go

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

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

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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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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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customers

IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metrics

Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing models

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