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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#341	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	6.93
Rank	#59	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.26
Rank	#320	Overall
	#46	Key-value stores

Website

bangdb.com

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

bangdb.com/developer

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2001

2011

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.4.1, July 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

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, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

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