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System Properties Comparison Hyprcubd vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Rockset vs. Sphinx vs. Vitess

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NameHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 CouchDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitehyprcubd.com (offline)www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantrockset.comsphinxsearch.comvitess.io
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.rockset.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperHyprcubd, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014RocksetSphinx Technologies Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2010201920012013
Current release3.5.1, February 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageGoErlangC++C++Go
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringnodynamic typingnoyes
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (https)RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP RESTProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controltoken accessAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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