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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RethinkDB vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitehazelcast.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlrethinkdb.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperHazelcastOracleThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Sphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20082011200920012011
Current release5.3.6, November 202324.1, May 20242.4.1, August 20203.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++C#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnonono
Triggersyes infoEventsnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding inforange basedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated MapElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyeswith Hadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)Atomic single-document operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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 infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infousers and table-level permissionsnono

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