DBMS > BoltDB vs. MySQL vs. NSDb vs. OpenQM vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. MySQL vs. NSDb vs. OpenQM vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.mysql.com

nsdb.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

nsdb.io/Architecture

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2013

1995

2017

1993

2001

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

3.4-12

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

yes

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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