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

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NameHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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 databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitehyprcubd.com (offline)www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperHyprcubd, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Sphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SCTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2010200120112019
Current release3.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 20153.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoErlangC++C#C
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringnonoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 fieldsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (https)RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol.NET Client APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP 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
C#
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controltoken accessAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
HyprcubdIBM CloudantSphinxSTSdbTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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