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DBMS > Infobright vs. Kinetica vs. Sphinx vs. VoltDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. Kinetica vs. Sphinx vs. VoltDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memoryOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.kinetica.comsphinxsearch.comwww.voltdb.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.KineticaSphinx Technologies Inc.VoltDB Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20052012200120102009
Current release7.1, August 20213.5.1, February 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editionscommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC, C++C++Java, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoonly a subset of SQL 99yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoJava
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supportedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored proceduresACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoSnapshots and command loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoUsers and roles with access to stored proceduresfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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