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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Machbase Neo vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

machbase.com

sphinxsearch.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

machbase.com/dbms

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Alibaba

Machbase

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2013

2001

1987

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

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

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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