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DBMS > BigObject vs. Sphinx vs. TempoIQ vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Sphinx vs. TempoIQ vs. XTDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iosphinxsearch.comtempoiq.com (offline)github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iosphinxsearch.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.TempoIQJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2015200120122019
Current release3.5.1, February 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)nolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonono
Triggersnonoyes infoRealtime Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes, 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple authentication-based access control

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