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System Properties Comparison openGauss vs. Oracle Coherence vs. QuestDB vs. Sphinx

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NameopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiOracles 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 databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.11
Rank#175  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#127  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.oracle.com/­java/­coherencequestdb.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
docs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencequestdb.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperHuawei and openGauss communityOracleQuestDB Technology IncSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2019200720142001
Current release3.0, March 202214.1, August 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL 2011noSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.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 proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesyes infoLive Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Shardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
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 integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurableACID for single-table writesno
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.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno
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