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DBMS > Blueflood vs. GBase vs. Graph Engine vs. Sphinx

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

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteblueflood.iowww.gbase.cnwww.graphengine.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperRackspaceGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.MicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2013200420102001
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, Python.NET and CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux.NETFreeBSD
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioningSharding 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
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes 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 controlnoyesno

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