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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Machbase Neo vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Machbase Neo vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx vs. YDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storemachbase.comspark.apache.org/­sqlsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoremachbase.com/­dbmsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaMachbaseApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.Yandex
Initial release20162013201420012019
Current releaseV8.0, August 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factornonenoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokenssimple password-based access controlnonoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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