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System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. Sphinx vs. StarRocks vs. XTDB

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NamePrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteprometheus.iosphinxsearch.comwww.starrocks.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationprometheus.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Juxt Ltd.
Initial release2015200120202019
Current release3.5.1, February 20232.5.3, March 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++C++, JavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynoyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocolJDBC
MySQL protocol
HTTP REST
JDBC
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
JavaClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby Federationnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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