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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. EJDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.graphengine.io

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Rackspace

Softmotions

Microsoft

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2013

2012

2010

2001

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

server-less

.NET

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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