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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Hive vs. Ignite vs. RethinkDB vs. Sphinx

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebasex.orghive.apache.orgignite.apache.orgrethinkdb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeapacheignite.readme.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20072012201520092001
Current release10.7, August 20233.1.3, April 2022Apache Ignite 2.62.4.1, August 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, Java, .NetC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryno
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyes (cache interceptors and events)Client-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding inforange basedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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