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System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. SurrealDB vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

surrealdb.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

surrealdb.com/docs

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Amazon Web Services

SurrealDB Ltd

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2021

2022

2003

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
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

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
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

ACID

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.

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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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