DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. OrigoDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. OrigoDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

origodb.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

origodb.com/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Hypertable Inc.

Circonus LLC.

Robert Friberg et al

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

2009

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

2001

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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