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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. HBase vs. Sphinx

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteblueflood.iowww.exasol.comhbase.apache.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.exasol.com/­resourceshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperRackspaceExasolApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2013200020082001
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROno
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 indexesnoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno

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