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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Netezza vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Netezza vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsSADAS 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 databases
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#266  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.sadasengine.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerKyligence, Inc.IBMSADAS s.r.l.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20052016200020062001
Current release3.3.3, December 20238.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux infoincluded in applianceAIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesnono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Shardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
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'
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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