DBMS > Databend vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

siridb.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Databend Labs

ObjectBox Limited

SAP

Cesbit

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2021

2017

2010

2017

2001

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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, user roles

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

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