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DBMS > HBase vs. jBASE vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. jBASE vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelWide column storeMultivalue DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasesphinxsearch.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9sphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Sphinx Technologies Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release2008199120012018
Current release2.3.4, January 20215.73.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROoptionalnono
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 indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding 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
yesnonenone
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 integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnono

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