DBMS > KairosDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. TempoIQ

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Name

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Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

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Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2013

2001

2012

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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

simple password-based access control

simple authentication-based access control

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