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DBMS > Hypertable vs. KairosDB vs. PostGIS vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. KairosDB vs. PostGIS vs. Sphinx

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Spatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbpostgis.netsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iopostgis.net/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2009201320052001
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20161.2.2, November 20183.4.2, February 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.noyes
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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