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System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	17.31
Rank	#33	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.41
Rank	#265	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	91.27
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sequoiadb.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon Web Services

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2021

2013

2003

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
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

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source 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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Document is locked during a transaction

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

simple password-based access control

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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