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DBMS > HBase vs. Kinetica vs. Sphinx vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Kinetica vs. Sphinx vs. YottaDB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comsphinxsearch.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.kinetica.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetKineticaSphinx Technologies Inc.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release2008201220012001
Current release2.3.4, January 20217.1, August 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesnono
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)by using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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