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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Citus vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsOpen Source Time Series DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#64  Key-value stores
Score2.15
Rank#123  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score4.92
Rank#73  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.11
Rank#346  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitecachelot.iowww.citusdata.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablessiridb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.siridb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftCesbitSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20152010201220172001
Current release8.1, December 20183.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++CCC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxhostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoNumeric datano
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 datanoACIDoptimistic lockingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes 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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturessimple rights management via user accountsno

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