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DBMS > Altibase vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. YottaDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4yottadb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualssphinxsearch.com/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SCYottaDB, LLC
Initial release1999200120112001
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C#C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsDocker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)no
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol.NET Client APIPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonooptimistic locking
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.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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