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System Properties Comparison Hyprcubd vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. TerminusDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

hyprcubd.com (offline)

sphinxsearch.com

splicemachine.com

terminusdb.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Splice Machine

DataChemist Ltd.

8Kdata

Initial release

2001

2014

2018

2016

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

3.1, March 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Prolog, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (https)

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

token access

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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