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DBMS > Hive vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. Typesense

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopOpen 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 methodA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#210  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitehive.apache.orgsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4typesense.org
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homesphinxsearch.com/­docstypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release2012200120112015
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Proprietary protocol.NET Client APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnono

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