DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Machbase Neo vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Machbase Neo vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
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	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

drill.apache.org

machbase.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

machbase.com/dbms

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Machbase

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

1984

2013

2001

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

V8.0, August 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

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.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

simple password-based access control

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