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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Rackspace

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Hazelcast

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2013

2004

2008

2001

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.3.6, November 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical 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

yes

Replicated Map

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

Role-based access control

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