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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Hyprcubd vs. Memcached vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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 accessServerless Time Series DBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#310  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storehyprcubd.com (offline)www.memcached.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaHyprcubd, Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalinformationpartners gmbhSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2016200320152001
Current release1.6.25, March 20241.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoCC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringnoyesno
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIgRPC (https)Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneSharding 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 servicenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes 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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokenstoken accessyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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