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DBMS > OpenSearch vs. SurrealDB vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. SurrealDB vs. TDengine

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NameOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelSearch engine
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score17.38
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Search engines
#2  Vector DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#176  Overall
#30  Document stores
#16  Graph DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#132  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
surrealdb.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationopensearch.org/­docs/­latestsurrealdb.com/­docsdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperThe OpenSearch Software FoundationSurrealDB LtdTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release202120222019
Current release2.19, February 2025v1.5.0, May 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaRustC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno
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, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes
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OpenSearchSurrealDBTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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