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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score58.10
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.exasol.comcloud.google.com/­bigquerysphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcescloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperExasolGoogleSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20132000201020012011
Current release3.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC++C#
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesnoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGoJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)nono

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