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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. etcd vs. mSQL vs. Sphinx vs. XTDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA distributed reliable key-value storemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitebangdb.cometcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
hughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.cometcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
sphinxsearch.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBHughes TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release2012199420012019
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.4, August 20194.4, October 20213.5.1, February 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++GoCC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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, geospatialnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes, watching key changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.nonenoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
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 modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)nonono

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