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DBMS > Citus vs. OpenEdge vs. Sadas Engine vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. OpenEdge vs. Sadas Engine vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.sadasengine.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperProgress Software CorporationSADAS s.r.l.MireoSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20101984200620202001
Current release8.1, December 2018OpenEdge 12.2, March 20208.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes infoclose to SQL 92yesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4horizontal partitioningFixed-grid hypercubesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replicationnoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.nonoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyesno

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