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DBMS > Datomic vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. YDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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 databasesCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasetsA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineVector DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#14  Vector DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comsphinxsearch.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippogithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperCognitectSphinx Technologies Inc.Yandex
Initial release2012200120232019
Current release1.0.7075, December 20233.5.1, February 20231.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnonono
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 supportedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
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 developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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