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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Hive vs. Hyprcubd vs. Memcached vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopServerless Time Series DBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storehive.apache.orghyprcubd.com (offline)www.memcached.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHyprcubd, Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2016201220032001
Current release3.1.3, April 20221.6.25, March 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaGoCC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringnono
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
gRPC (https)Proprietary protocolProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes 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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users, groups and rolestoken accessyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno

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