DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Linter vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Linter vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

RDBMS for high security requirements

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

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

linter.ru

sphinxsearch.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

sphinxsearch.com/docs

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

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

relex.ru

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

1990

2001

1987

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
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

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

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

user defined functions

in Python

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

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

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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