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DBMS > OpenSearch vs. RethinkDB vs. SpaceTime vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. RethinkDB vs. SpaceTime vs. SwayDB

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NameOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
rethinkdb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimeswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationopensearch.org/­docs/­latestrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazon Web ServicesThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017MireoSimer Plaha
Initial release2021200920202018
Current release2.5.0, January 20232.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageJavaC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesno
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 indexedyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
C++
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding inforange basedFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsyesno
More information provided by the system vendor
OpenSearchRethinkDBSpaceTimeSwayDB
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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