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DBMS > OpenSearch vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SpaceTime

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NameOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelSearch engine
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.38
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Search engines
#2  Vector DBMS
Score28.65
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationopensearch.org/­docs/­latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASE
DeveloperThe OpenSearch Software FoundationSAP, SybaseMireo
Initial release202119872020
Current release2.19, February 202516.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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 and C++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava and Transact-SQLno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Real-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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