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DBMS > Blueflood vs. FeatureBase vs. MonetDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. FeatureBase vs. MonetDB vs. Sphinx

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteblueflood.iowww.featurebase.comwww.monetdb.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.featurebase.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperRackspaceMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsMonetDB BVSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2013201720042001
Current release2022, May 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL queriesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding via remote tablesSharding 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 Cassandrayesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyes 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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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