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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Qdrant vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx vs. Tigris

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingSADAS 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 databasesA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.09
Rank#363  Overall
#49  Document stores
#54  Key-value stores
#22  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.sadasengine.comsphinxsearch.comwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperCognitectQdrantSADAS s.r.l.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Tigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20122021200620012022
Current release1.0.6735, June 20238.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureRustC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocolCLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnonono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersCollection-level replicationnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
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)yesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes, using FoundationDB
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'
User concepts infoAccess controlnoKey-based authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles

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