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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS vs. STSdb vs. Teradata

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPort of SQLite to JavaScriptKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltsphinxsearch.comsql.js.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.teradata.com
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.teradata.com
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSTS Soft SCTeradata
Initial release20132001201220111984
Current release3.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windowshosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolJavaScript API.NET Client API.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGoC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScriptC#
Java
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonenoneSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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