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DBMS > Machbase Neo vs. Solr vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Machbase Neo vs. Solr vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx vs. TypeDB

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NameMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneSpark 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 databasesTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitemachbase.comsolr.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlsphinxsearch.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationmachbase.com/­dbmssolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docstypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperMachbaseApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.Vaticle
Initial release20132006201420012016
Current releaseV8.0, August 20239.6.1, May 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.5.1, February 20232.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScalaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava pluginsnonono
Triggersnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnonenoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic lockingnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes 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.yes infovolatile and lookup tableyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlyesnonoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Machbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxSolrSpark SQLSphinxTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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