DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. NSDb vs. Sphinx vs. SurrealDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. NSDb vs. Sphinx vs. SurrealDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

nsdb.io

sphinxsearch.com

surrealdb.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

nsdb.io/Architecture

sphinxsearch.com/docs

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2017

2001

2022

2012

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Proprietary protocol

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

Using Apache Lucene

yes

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

yes

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

simple authentication-based access control

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