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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. DolphinDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsOpen Source Time Series DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.dolphindb.comwww.sadasengine.comsiridb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.siridb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCognitectDolphinDB, IncSADAS s.r.l.CesbitSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122018200620172001
Current release1.0.7075, December 2023v2.00.4, January 20228.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infofree community version availablecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++C++CC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric datano
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesnonono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes 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 inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsno

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