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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. EJDB vs. Newts vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

opennms.github.io/newts

sphinxsearch.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Softmotions

OpenNMS Group

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

2012

2014

2001

1987

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

in-process shared library

HTTP REST
Java API

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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