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DBMS > Graphite vs. Machbase Neo vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Machbase Neo vs. Sphinx

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmachbase.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iomachbase.com/­dbmssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisMachbaseSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release200620132001
Current releaseV8.0, August 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languagePythonCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesno
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 indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes 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 infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlno

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