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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sphinx

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#266  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterpriseopentsdb.netsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffKyligence, Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2014201620112001
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)noSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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