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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Sphinx vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameeXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNatively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#100  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score3.14
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.23
Rank#165  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.mcobject.comhsqldb.orgsphinxsearch.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperMcObjectSphinx Technologies Inc.VictoriaMetrics
Initial release2001200120012018
Current release8.2, 20212.7.2, June 20233.5.1, February 2023v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++Go
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.no infosupport of XML interfaces availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava, SQLnono
Triggersyes infoby defining eventsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning / shardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
nonenoneSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyesyesyes
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 controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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