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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RisingWave vs. Sphinx

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series 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
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteblueflood.iowww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.risingwave.com/­databasesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperRackspacePerconaRisingWave LabsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2013201520222001
Current release3.4.10-2.10, November 20171.2, September 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++RustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSONno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTproprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding 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 replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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 infovia In-Memory Engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesUsers and Rolesno

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