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System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. TerarkDB vs. Transbase

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NameOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score16.03
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.snowflake.comsqream.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationopensearch.org/­docs/­latestdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAmazon Web ServicesSnowflake Computing Inc.SQream TechnologiesByteDance, originally TerarkTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20212014201720161987
Current release2.5.0, January 20232022.1.6, December 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesnoyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functions in Pythonnoyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyeshorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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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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