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DBMS > Hypertable vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. Transbase

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 HadoopOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score6.06
Rank#61  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#257  Overall
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#327  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitesphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-workswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Splice MachineTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2009200120141987
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20163.5.1, February 20233.1, March 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoJavayes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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