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DBMS > KairosDB vs. Manticore Search vs. mSQL vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Manticore Search vs. mSQL vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmanticoresearch.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsphinxsearch.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iomanual.manticoresearch.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperManticore SoftwareHughes TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20132017199420012023
Current release1.2.2, November 20186.0, February 20234.4, October 20213.5.1, February 20231.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanyesnoVector, Numeric and String
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.noCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes 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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlnononoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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