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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. XTDB

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleOpen 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 general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#317  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SCJuxt Ltd.
Initial release200120112019
Current release3.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 20151.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C#Clojure
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes, extensible-data-notation format
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)nolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
Proprietary protocol.NET Client APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono

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