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DBMS > Greenplum vs. KairosDB vs. Sphinx vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. KairosDB vs. Sphinx vs. YTsaurus

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websitegreenplum.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbsphinxsearch.comytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgkairosdb.github.iosphinxsearch.com/­docsytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Yandex
Initial release2005201320012023
Current release7.0.0, September 20231.2.2, November 20183.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Ubuntu
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.yes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlnoAccess Control Lists

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