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System Properties Comparison Oracle Coherence vs. QuestDB vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOracles in-memory data grid solutionA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencequestdb.iosphinxsearch.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencequestdb.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperOracleQuestDB Technology IncSphinx Technologies Inc.Transwarp
Initial release200720142001
Current release14.1, August 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersyes infoLive Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurableACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infooptionallyyesyes 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.yesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno
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Oracle CoherenceQuestDBSphinxTranswarp ArgoDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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