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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Infobright vs. Realm vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Infobright vs. Realm vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteblueflood.ioignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbrealm.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikirealm.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperRackspaceIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SAP infoformerly SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20132005201419922001
Current release17, July 20153.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersnonoyes infoChange Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranonenonenoneSharding 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 CassandraSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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 infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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