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System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. RavenDB vs. Solr vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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NameOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engineSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websiteopentsdb.netravendb.netsolr.apache.orgsphinxsearch.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlravendb.net/­docssolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsHibernating RhinosApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20112010200620011987
Current release5.4, July 20229.6.1, May 20243.5.1, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#JavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsnoyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingnoyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (RQL)Solr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJava pluginsnoyes
Triggersnoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replicationyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableoptimistic lockingnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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