DBMS > BoltDB vs. Graph Engine vs. HBase vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Graph Engine vs. HBase vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Wide column store

Key-value store

Search engine

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2013

2010

2008

2013

2001

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

.NET

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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