DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. GBase vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. GBase vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

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

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.gbase.cn

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Hughes Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2015

2004

1994

2013

2001

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

4.4, October 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

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

Java

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

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