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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. DolphinDB vs. GBase vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Splice Machine

Initial release

2015

2018

2004

2001

2014

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.5.1, February 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

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

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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