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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Sphinx vs. StarRocks vs. STSdb

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financesphinxsearch.comwww.starrocks.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperAxibase CorporationSphinx Technologies Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023STS Soft SC
Initial release2013200120202011
Current release155853.5.1, February 20233.3, June 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
MySQL protocol
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno

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