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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. JaguarDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.siridb.com

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

DataJaguar, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Cesbit

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2007

2015

2006

2017

2001

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.3 July 2023

8.0

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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