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DBMS > BigObject vs. openGemini vs. Sphinx vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. openGemini vs. Sphinx vs. TerarkDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
sphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.opengemini.org/­guidesphinxsearch.com/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Huawei and openGemini communitySphinx Technologies Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2015202220012016
Current release1.1, July 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringnono
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 indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTProprietary protocolC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnonenone
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 datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAdministrators and common users accountsnono

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