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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitySADAS 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 databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.sadasengine.comsphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperCognitectSADAS s.r.l.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Splice Machine
Initial release2012200620012014
Current release1.0.6735, June 20238.03.5.1, February 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++C++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnonoyes infoJava
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
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 developmentyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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