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DBMS > HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Rockset vs. Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Rockset vs. Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeDocument storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantrockset.comsphinxsearch.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.rockset.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014RocksetSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20082010201920012009
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROnodynamic typingnoyes
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP RESTProprietary protocolTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.optional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenono

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