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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. gStore vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. Sphinx

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Wide column storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#359  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitecachelot.ioen.gstore.cnwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Circonus LLC.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20152016200920172001
Current release1.2, November 20230.9.8.11, March 2016V0.10.20, January 20183.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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 indexesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes, in Luano
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnonono
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportednonono

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