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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RisingWave vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RisingWave vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.sadasengine.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonPerconaRisingWave LabsSADAS s.r.l.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20072015202220062001
Current release3.4.10-2.10, November 20171.2, September 20238.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++RustC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
AIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptUDFs in Python or Javanono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovia In-Memory Engineyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolesUsers and RolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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