DBMS > Bangdb vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hyprcubd vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hyprcubd vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.15
Rank	#334	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#31	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

bangdb.com

www.hawkular.org

hyprcubd.com (offline)

sphinxsearch.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Community supported by Red Hat

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2014

2001

2018

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

gRPC (https)

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

token access

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