DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Elasticsearch vs. GigaSpaces vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Elasticsearch vs. GigaSpaces vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

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Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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
Key-value store

Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.gigaspaces.com

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Elastic

Gigaspaces Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2016

2010

2000

2013

2001

Current release

1703

8.6, January 2023

15.5, September 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

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

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
Python
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

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

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

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

Role-based access control

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