DBMS > Newts vs. Realm vs. SiteWhere vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Newts vs. Realm vs. SiteWhere vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.06
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	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

opennms.github.io/newts

realm.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

realm.io/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

OpenNMS Group

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SiteWhere

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2014

2010

2001

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

based on HBase

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

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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