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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. JaguarDB vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx vs. SQLite

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Description

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.siridb.com

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Cesbit

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2020

2015

2017

2001

2000

Current release

3.3 July 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

simple rights management via user accounts

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