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DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ vs. TerarkDB

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridOpen 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 methodScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitehazelcast.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4tempoiq.com (offline)github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperHazelcastSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SCTempoIQByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20082001201120122016
Current release5.3.6, November 20233.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesno
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 indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol.NET Client APIHTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnononono
Triggersyes infoEventsnonoyes infoRealtime Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapnonenonenone
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 Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnonosimple authentication-based access controlno

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