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System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS

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NamePrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.92
Rank#51  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#255  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#248  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websiteprometheus.iosphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationprometheus.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-workssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.Splice MachineAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2015200120142012
Current release3.5.1, February 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynoyesyes
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 infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoJavano
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby FederationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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