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System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. Riak KV vs. ScyllaDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store

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

Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.scylladb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

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

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Amazon Web Services

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

ScyllaDB

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2021

2009

2015

2011

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

restricted

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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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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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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