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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Memcached vs. Quasardb vs. Sphinx

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.firebolt.iowww.memcached.orgquasar.aisphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­mastersphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalquasardbSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2020200320092001
Current release1.6.27, May 20243.14.1, January 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++C++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infointeger and binaryno
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 indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyes infoby using LevelDByes 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.yes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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