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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sphinx vs. XTDB

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.78
Rank#61  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteaerospike.commachbase.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serversphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.commachbase.com/­dbmslearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serversphinxsearch.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeMachbaseMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20122013198920012019
Current release7.0, November 2023V8.0, August 2023SQL Server 2022, November 20223.5.1, February 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercial infofree test version availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCCC++C++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes, 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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuanoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factoryes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes, 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.yesyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlysimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxMicrosoft SQL ServerSphinxXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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