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DBMS > Citus vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx vs. Stardog vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx vs. Stardog vs. Yanza

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.sadasengine.comsphinxsearch.comwww.stardog.comyanza.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperSADAS s.r.l.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Stardog-UnionYanza
Initial release20102006200120102015
Current release8.1, December 20188.03.5.1, February 20237.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageCC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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 functionalitynono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocolGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javano
Triggersyesnonoyes infovia event handlersyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnonenoneMulti-source replication in HA-Clusternone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesno

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