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System Properties Comparison Databend vs. Memcached vs. RisingWave vs. Sphinx

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NameDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.memcached.orgwww.risingwave.com/­databasesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.databend.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDatabend LabsDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalRisingWave LabsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2021200320222001
Current release1.0.59, April 20231.6.27, May 20241.2, September 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageRustCRustC++
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoStandard SQL-types and JSONno
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.nono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes 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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers and Rolesno

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