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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Machbase Neo vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiteWhere vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Machbase Neo vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiteWhere vs. Sphinx

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitedrill.apache.orgmachbase.comwww.sadasengine.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsmachbase.com/­dbmswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMachbaseSADAS s.r.l.SiteWhereSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122013200620102001
Current release1.20.3, January 2023V8.0, August 20238.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree test version availablecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcesimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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