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DBMS > BoltDB vs. EXASOL vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EXASOL vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. Ultipa

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#138  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#338  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.exasol.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.ultipa.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcessphinxsearch.com/­docswww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperExasolSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SCUltipa
Initial release20132000200120112019
Current release3.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C#
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Proprietary protocol.NET Client APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoJava
Lua
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnono

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