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

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  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.
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAn 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 modelDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebirdsql.orgopennms.github.io/­newtssphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSoftmotionsFirebird FoundationHypertable Inc.OpenNMS GroupSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200920142001
Current release5.0.0, January 20240.9.8.11, March 20163.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen 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 languageCC and C++C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-lessAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnoyesno
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.no
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP REST
Java API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
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 proceduresnoPSQLnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
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 nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable 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 integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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 controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnonono

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