DBMS > DataFS vs. etcd vs. H2 vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. etcd vs. H2 vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

A distributed reliable key-value store

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

newdatabase.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.h2database.com

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Mobiland AG

Thomas Mueller

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2018

2005

2001

2020

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

3.4, August 2019

2.2.220, July 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Java

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Sharding

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

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

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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