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DBMS > OrigoDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison OrigoDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TimescaleDB

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NameOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#54  Document stores
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.96
Rank#192  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websiteorigodb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesphinxsearch.comwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdbwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationorigodb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docswww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042docs.timescale.com
DeveloperRobert Friberg et alMireoSphinx Technologies Inc.TencentTimescale
Initial release2009 infounder the name LiveDB2020200120132017
Current release3.5.1, February 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC#C++C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesnoyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.no infocan be achieved using .NETnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.NetC#
C++
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes infoDomain Eventsnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedFixed-grid hypercubesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedAutomatic shardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritydepending on modelnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes 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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based authorizationyesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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