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System Properties Comparison Hyprcubd vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Rockset vs. Sphinx

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NameHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionServerless Time Series DBMSWidely used in-process key-value storeA 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 databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitehyprcubd.com (offline)www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlrockset.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.rockset.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperHyprcubd, Inc.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleRocksetSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release199420192001
Current release18.1.40, May 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageGoC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringnodynamic typingno
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (https)HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnoyes infoonly for the SQL APInono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controltoken accessnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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