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System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

sphinxsearch.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Amazon Web Services

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2021

2001

1987

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

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

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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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