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DBMS > HyperSQL vs. Sphinx vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Sphinx vs. TempoIQ

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.70
Rank#92  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
Score5.79
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitehsqldb.orgsphinxsearch.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.TempoIQ
Initial release200120012012
Current release2.7.2, June 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolHTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLnono
Triggersyesnoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple authentication-based access control

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