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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Sphinx

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Sphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Search engine
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Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­35387.htm	sphinxsearch.com/­docs
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release	2016	2001
Current release		3.4.1, July 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source GPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no
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Implementation language		C++
Server operating systems	hosted	FreeBSD Linux NetBSD OS X Solaris Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	no
XML support Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.	yes
Secondary indexes	yes	yes full-text index on all search fields
SQL Support of SQL	yes	SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	C++ unofficial client library Java Perl unofficial client library PHP Python Ruby unofficial client library
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no
Triggers	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Sphinx
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