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System Properties Comparison Hyprcubd vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Sphinx vs. StarRocks vs. STSdb

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NameHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 CouchDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitehyprcubd.com (offline)www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantsphinxsearch.comwww.starrocks.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperHyprcubd, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Sphinx Technologies Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023STS Soft SC
Initial release2010200120202011
Current release3.5.1, February 20232.5.3, March 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoErlangC++C++, JavaC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringnonoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (https)RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocolJDBC
MySQL protocol
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controltoken accessAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno

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