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DBMS > HBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Sphinx vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Sphinx vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelWide column storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storesphinxsearch.comtempoiq.com (offline)github.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBMSphinx Technologies Inc.TempoIQ8Kdata
Initial release20082017200120122016
Current release2.3.4, January 20212.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesnoyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 indexesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesnono
Triggersyesnonoyes infoRealtime Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-active shard replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple authentication-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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