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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. EsgynDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Esgyn

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2018

2015

2001

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

Sharding

none

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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