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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Databricks vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS
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
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.databricks.comsphinxsearch.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.databricks.comsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDatabricksSphinx Technologies Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release2014201320011987
Current release3.5.1, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.with Databricks SQLSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptPython
R
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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