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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. EJDB vs. Hypertable vs. Newts vs. Sphinx

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NameDolt  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopTime Series DBMS based on CassandraOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
github.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbopennms.github.io/­newtssphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolthub.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDoltHub IncSoftmotionsHypertable Inc.OpenNMS GroupSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20182012200920142001
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20163.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
server-lessLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
in-process shared libraryC++ API
Thrift
HTTP REST
Java API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infocurrently in alpha releasenononono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.noneselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupnononono

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