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System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. VelocityDB

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NameOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteopentsdb.netspark.apache.org/­sqlsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4velocitydb.com
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SCVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20112014200120112011
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 20157.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++C#C#
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 indexesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API.Net
Supported programming languagesErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
TriggersnonononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononoBased on Windows Authentication

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