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DBMS > Databend vs. Sphinx vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. Sphinx vs. XTDB

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NameDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 complexityOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
sphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.databend.comsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDatabend LabsSphinx Technologies Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release202120012019
Current release1.0.59, April 20233.5.1, February 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageRustC++Clojure
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesno

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