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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#121  Relational DBMS
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comraima.comsphinxsearch.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.raima.comsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperHazelcastRaima Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release2008198420011987
Current release5.3.6, November 202315, June 20213.5.1, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaCC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 strategyno infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationnoyes
Triggersyes infoEventsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated MapSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
HazelcastRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaSphinxTransbase
Specific characteristicsRaima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Competitive advantagesDecreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Typical application scenariosTypical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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Key customersInfor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Market metricsOver 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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Licensing and pricing modelsJust as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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