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DBMS > Drizzle vs. HBase vs. Pinecone vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. HBase vs. Pinecone vs. Sphinx

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeVector DBMSSearch engine
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Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.pinecone.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetPinecone Systems, IncSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2008200820192001
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.3.4, January 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROString, Number, Booleanno
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 indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
PythonC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno

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