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System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. StarRocks vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	17.31
Rank	#33	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.starrocks.io

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon Web Services

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2021

2020

2018

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

3.3, June 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Role-based access control

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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

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