DB-EnginesextremeDB - Data management wherever you need itEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > OpenSearch vs. SurrealDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. SurrealDB vs. TerminusDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSearch engine
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.38
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Search engines
#2  Vector DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#176  Overall
#30  Document stores
#16  Graph DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#327  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
surrealdb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationopensearch.org/­docs/­latestsurrealdb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperThe OpenSearch Software FoundationSurrealDB LtdDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release202120222018
Current release2.19, February 2025v1.5.0, May 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaRustProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
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 indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
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 integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
OpenSearchSurrealDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Recent citations in the news

AWS Weekly Roundup: South America expansion, Q Developer in OpenSearch, and more (May 12, 2025)
12 May 2025, Amazon Web Services

OpenSearch 3.0 hits: First major release under Linux Foundation as it battles ElasticSearch for mindshare
7 May 2025, devclass

OpenSearch in 2025: Much more than an Elasticsearch fork
28 April 2025, InfoWorld

OpenSearch 3.0 targets fast AI search with MCP and GPU-powered vectors
7 May 2025, Blocks and Files

OpenSearch revs up AI workloads with GPU-accelerated vector search
6 May 2025, SiliconANGLE

provided by Google News

SurrealDB Launches Surreal Cloud, a Fully Managed Database Service That Tackles the Complexity Issues Faced by Developer Teams
7 December 2024, insideAI News

SurrealDB's Surreal Cloud debuts on AWS S3 for scalable multimodel database as a service
4 December 2024, SiliconANGLE

SurrealDB is helping developers consolidate their databases
18 June 2024, TechCrunch

London-based SurrealDB secures over €18.6 million aiming to disrupt database technology
18 June 2024, EU-Startups

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: SurrealDB
10 May 2024, SD Times

provided by Google News

How TerminusDB is commercializing its open source graph database
16 March 2021, VentureBeat

Dublin-based data collaboration tool TerminusDB raises €3.6 million in seed round
15 March 2021, Tech.eu

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here