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DBMS > Graphite vs. Sphinx vs. SQream DB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Sphinx vs. SQream DB vs. TerminusDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-websphinxsearch.comsqream.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iosphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.sqream.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperChris DavisSphinx Technologies Inc.SQream TechnologiesDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2006200120172018
Current release3.5.1, February 20232022.1.6, December 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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 indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Proprietary protocol.Net
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions in Pythonyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal and vertical partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes infoin-memory journaling
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access control

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