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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Infobright vs. Sphinx

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2014201220052001
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesno

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