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DBMS > Oracle Coherence vs. Sphinx vs. TiDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Oracle Coherence vs. Sphinx vs. TiDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOracles in-memory data grid solutionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencesphinxsearch.compingcap.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencesphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stabledocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperOracleSphinx Technologies Inc.PingCAP, Inc.VictoriaMetrics
Initial release2007200120162018
Current release14.1, August 20233.5.1, February 20238.1.0, May 2024v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Go, RustGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyes infoLive Eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with selectable consistency levelnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Synchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infofull support since version 6.6no
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurablenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infooptionallyyes 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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Oracle CoherenceSphinxTiDBVictoriaMetrics
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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