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DBMS > Hyprcubd vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Hyprcubd vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle vs. Sphinx

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NameHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionServerless Time Series DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBWidely used RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1244.08
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitehyprcubd.com (offline)www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oracle.com/­databasesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.oracle.com/­en/­databasesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperHyprcubd, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OracleSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release201019802001
Current release23c, September 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageGoErlangC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringnoyesno
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (https)RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possibleno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno infocan be realized in PL/SQLno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.nonoyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'
User concepts infoAccess controltoken accessAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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