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DBMS > Axibase vs. Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Sphinx

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegalaxybase.comcloud.google.com/­datastoresphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAxibase CorporationChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司GoogleSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2013201720082001
Current release15585Nov 20, November 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes, details hereno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined procedures and functionsusing Google App Engineno
TriggersyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using Paxosnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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