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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Sphinx vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Sphinx vs. WakandaDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.76
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.09
Rank#352  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlsphinxsearch.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmsphinxsearch.com/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAlibabaSphinx Technologies Inc.Wakanda SAS
Initial release20012012
Current release3.5.1, February 20232.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes
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Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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