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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Hazelcast vs. Hive vs. Sphinx

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA widely adopted in-memory data griddata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegeospock.comhazelcast.comhive.apache.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGeoSpockHazelcastApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release200820122001
Current release2.0, September 20195.3.6, November 20233.1.3, April 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategy
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersnoyes infoEventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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