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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Databricks vs. Elasticsearch vs. OpenQM vs. Sphinx

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineMultivalue DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.databricks.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDatabricksElasticRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20132013201019932001
Current release8.6, January 20233.4-123.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoPython
R
Scala
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesyesyesno
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno
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BoltDBDatabricksElasticsearchOpenQM infoalso called QMSphinx
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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