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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Machbase Neo vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx vs. TempoIQ

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.firebolt.iomachbase.comspark.apache.org/­sqlsphinxsearch.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iomachbase.com/­dbmsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.MachbaseApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.TempoIQ
Initial release20202013201420012012
Current releaseV8.0, August 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageCScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolHTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyes 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.yes infovolatile and lookup tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlnonosimple authentication-based access control

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