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System Properties Comparison NuoDB vs. Quasardb vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. TimesTen

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NameNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasequasar.aisphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdoc.nuodb.comdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.quasardbSphinx Technologies Inc.Splice MachineOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20132009200120141998
Current release3.14.1, January 20243.5.1, February 20233.1, March 202111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++Java
Server operating systemshosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binarynoyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infowith tagsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIProprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLnonoyes infoJavaPL/SQL
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infotunable commit protocolACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTemporary tableyes infoTransient modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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