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System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. YottaDB

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Name

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Description

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Amazon Web Services

Sybase, SAP

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2021

1993

2001

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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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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