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System Properties Comparison OceanBase vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP HANA vs. Sphinx

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NameOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLOracles in-memory data grid solutionIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteen.oceanbase.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasedocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencehelp.sap.com/­hanasphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupOracleSAPSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2010200720102001
Current release4.3.0, April 202414.1, August 20232.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoCommercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAppliance or cloud-serviceFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAda infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
.Net
C++
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modenoSQLScript, Rno
Triggersyesyes infoLive Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)ShardingyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using Paxosyes, with selectable consistency levelyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurableACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyesyes 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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationyesno

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