DBMS > Blueflood vs. H2GIS vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. H2GIS vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of H2

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Rackspace

CNRS

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2013

2001

2009

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on H2

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

optional

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

based on H2

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