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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. JaguarDB vs. PostGIS vs. SAP IQ vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

cachelot.io

www.jaguardb.com

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2015

2005

1994

2001

Current release

3.3 July 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

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

Memcached protocol

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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