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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#354	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	6.72
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database

www.sap.com/products/sql-anywhere.html

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb

help.sap.com/sql-anywhere

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Circonus LLC.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2009

2017

1992

2001

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

V0.10.20, January 2018

17, July 2015

3.4.1, July 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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