DBMS > OpenSearch vs. Riak TS vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. Riak TS vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.timescale.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Amazon Web Services

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SiteWhere

Timescale

8Kdata

Initial release

2021

2015

2010

2017

2016

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

2.13.0, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

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

based on HBase

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users 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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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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