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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Firebolt vs. Sphinx

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebangdb.comwww.firebolt.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.firebolt.iosphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBFirebolt Analytics Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release201220202001
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesno
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.no
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)depending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes 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.yes, run db with in-memory only mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)no

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