DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Bangdb vs. Graphite vs. HyperSQL vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Graphite vs. HyperSQL vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBOpen Source Time Series DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebangdb.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhsqldb.orgsiridb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comgraphite.readthedocs.iohsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.siridb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBChris DavisCesbitSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122006200120172001
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212.7.2, June 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC, C++PythonJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsNumeric data onlyyesyes infoNumeric datano
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava, SQLnono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnonenoneShardingSharding 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)nonenoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes 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 modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsno

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
BangdbGraphiteHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBSiriDBSphinx
DB-Engines blog posts

Time Series DBMS are the database category with the fastest increase in popularity
4 July 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

Time Series DBMS as a new trend?
1 June 2015, Paul Andlinger

show all

The DB-Engines ranking includes now search engines
4 February 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Try out the Graphite monitoring tool for time-series data
29 October 2019, TechTarget

Getting Started with Monitoring using Graphite
23 January 2015, InfoQ.com

The Billion Data Point Challenge: Building a Query Engine for High Cardinality Time Series Data
10 December 2018, Uber

The value of time series data and TSDBs
10 June 2021, InfoWorld

Real-Time Performance and Health Monitoring Using Netdata
2 September 2019, CNX Software

provided by Google News

HyperSQL DataBase flaw leaves library vulnerable to RCE
24 October 2022, The Daily Swig

Introduction to JDBC with HSQLDB tutorial
14 November 2022, TheServerSide.com

provided by Google News

Switching From Sphinx to MkDocs Documentation — What Did I Gain and Lose
2 February 2024, Towards Data Science

5 Powerful Alternatives to Elasticsearch
25 April 2024, Insider Monkey

Manticore is a Faster Alternative to Elasticsearch in C++
25 July 2022, hackernoon.com

Royal Mail stamp prices could rise, warns Czech Sphinx
3 June 2024, Proactive Investors UK

Perplexity AI: From Its Use To Operation, Everything You Need To Know About Google's Newest Challenger
11 January 2024, Free Press Journal

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here