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System Properties Comparison Rockset vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. VoltDB

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NameRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiterockset.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.rockset.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperRocksetSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SCVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2019200120112010
Current release3.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 201511.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++C#Java, C++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datedynamic typingnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesall fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocol.NET Client APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenonoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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