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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

machbase.com/dbms

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Altibase

DataJaguar, Inc.

Machbase

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

1999

2015

2013

2001

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.3 July 2023

V8.0, August 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

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

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

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