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System Properties Comparison openGemini vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.02
Rank	#371	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	17.38
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Search engines
	#2	Vector DBMS

Website

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

docs.opengemini.org/guide

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Huawei and openGemini community

The OpenSearch Software Foundation

Initial release

2022

2021

Current release

1.1, July 2023

2.19, February 2025

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators and common users accounts

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