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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Sphinx vs. TimesTen vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Sphinx vs. TimesTen vs. YTsaurus

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#323  Overall
#44  Document stores
#47  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comsphinxsearch.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.htmlytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.Oracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Yandex
Initial release2016200119982023
Current release3.5.1, February 2023Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Ubuntu
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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 indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists

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