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DBMS > Datomic vs. Sphinx vs. SQream DB vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Sphinx vs. SQream DB vs. YTsaurus

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#323  Overall
#44  Document stores
#47  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datomic.comsphinxsearch.comsqream.comytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.sqream.comytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperCognitectSphinx Technologies Inc.SQream TechnologiesYandex
Initial release2012200120172023
Current release1.0.7180, July 20243.5.1, February 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxUbuntu
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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 indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnouser defined functions in Python
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
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 development
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess Control Lists

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