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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. openGauss vs. Riak TS vs. Sphinx

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NameHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.harperdb.iogitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
www.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperHarperDBHuawei and openGauss communityOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2017201920152001
Current release3.1, August 20213.0, March 20223.0.0, September 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageNode.jsC, C++, JavaErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemayesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoJSON data typesyesnono
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 indexesyesyesrestrictedyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like data manipulation statementsANSI SQL 2011yes, limitedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C
C++
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yesErlangno
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)ShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using LMDByesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnono

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