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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Sequoiadb vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

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

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.sequoiadb.com

sphinxsearch.com

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

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

sphinxsearch.com/docs

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2013

2001

1987

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

JavaScript

yes

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

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Document is locked during a transaction

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

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.

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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