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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. openGauss vs. SAP HANA vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

help.sap.com/hana

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Huawei and openGauss community

SAP

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2013

2019

2010

2001

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

3.0, March 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

yes

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

Source-replica replication

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

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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

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

yes

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