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DBMS > HBase vs. OpenQM vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. OpenQM vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelWide column storeMultivalue DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score31.25
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmsphinxsearch.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSphinx Technologies Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2008199320012018
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.4-123.5.1, February 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes infowith some exceptionsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Proprietary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneJournaling Streams
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDnoACID
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 infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoRole-based access control

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