DBMS > OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.siridb.com

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Facebook, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Cesbit

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2011

2013

2006

2017

2001

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

8.0

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

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 HBase

yes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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