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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. LokiJS vs. Sphinx vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2In-memory JavaScript DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSsphinxsearch.comwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdb
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJSsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.Tencent
Initial release2013201420012013
Current release1.2.2, November 20183.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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 indexesnoyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JavaScript APIProprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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