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DBMS > ArangoDB vs. Riak TS vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Riak TS vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. TimescaleDB

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NameArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.09
Rank#83  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#11  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.16
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score5.92
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#242  Overall
#113  Relational DBMS
Score3.68
Rank#74  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitearangodb.comsphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.arangodb.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestsphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.Splice MachineTimescale
Initial release20122015200120142017
Current release3.11.5, November 20233.0.0, September 20223.5.1, February 20233.1, March 20212.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ErlangC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashnonoyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, limitedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptErlangnoyes infoJavauser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infosince version 2.0ShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsno infolinks between datasets can be storednoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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