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DBMS > Machbase Neo vs. Qdrant vs. RRDtool vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Machbase Neo vs. Qdrant vs. RRDtool vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx

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NameMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitemachbase.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
oss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolspark.apache.org/­sqlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationmachbase.com/­dbmsqdrant.tech/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperMachbaseQdrantTobias OetikerApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20132021199920142001
Current releaseV8.0, August 20231.8.0, 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCRustC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, BooleanNumeric data onlyyesno
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
in-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorCollection-level replicationnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency, tunable consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tableyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlKey-based authenticationnonono

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