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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx vs. SQLite vs. VelocityDB

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridOpen Source Time Series DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented 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
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comsiridb.comsphinxsearch.comwww.sqlite.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.siridb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperHazelcastCesbitSphinx Technologies Inc.Dwayne Richard HippVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20082017200120002011
Current release5.3.6, November 20233.5.1, February 20233.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoPublic Domaincommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++CC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoNumeric datanoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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 strategynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIProprietary protocolADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnononono
Triggersyes infoEventsnonoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlsimple rights management via user accountsnonoBased on Windows Authentication

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