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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. HEAVY.AI vs. PlanetScale vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp KunDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.14
Rank#341  Overall
#149  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
planetscale.comsphinxsearch.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundb
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.heavy.aiplanetscale.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperElasticHEAVY.AI, Inc.PlanetScaleSphinx Technologies Inc.Transwarp
Initial release2010201620202001
Current release8.6, January 20235.10, January 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAGoC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoproprietary syntaxnoyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID at shard levelnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnoyes

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