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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Machbase Neo vs. OpenMLDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonOpenMLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataAn open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inferenceSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#359  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.h2database.commachbase.comopenmldb.aispark.apache.org/­sqlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlmachbase.com/­dbmsopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­mainspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperThomas MuellerMachbase4 Paradigm Inc.Apache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20052013202020142001
Current release2.2.220, July 2023V8.0, August 20232024-2 February 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree test version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++, Java, ScalaScalaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JDBC
SQLAlchemy
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnononono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes 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.yesyes infovolatile and lookup tableyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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