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DBMS > Newts vs. Pinecone vs. Sphinx vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Newts vs. Pinecone vs. Sphinx vs. XTDB

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NameNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSSearch engineDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteopennms.github.io/­newtswww.pinecone.iosphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperOpenNMS GroupPinecone Systems, IncSphinx Technologies Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release2014201920012019
Current release3.5.1, February 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleannoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaPythonC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnono

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