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DBMS > Bangdb vs. Derby vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Derby vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebangdb.comdb.apache.org/­derbyazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software FoundationMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2012199720152001
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202110.17.1.0, November 2023V13.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes 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, run db with in-memory only modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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