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DBMS > BaseX vs. Ehcache vs. MaxDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Ehcache vs. MaxDB vs. Sphinx

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebasex.orgwww.ehcache.orgmaxdb.sap.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.ehcache.org/­documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2007200919842001
Current release11.0, June 20243.10.0, March 20227.9.10.12, February 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JCacheADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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