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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Rockset vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA 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 high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeSearch engineWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgrockset.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.rockset.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetRocksetSphinx Technologies Inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release2008201920012020
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.5.1, February 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROdynamic typingno
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP RESTProprietary protocolProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding 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
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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