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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSAP infoformerly Sybaseinformationpartners gmbhSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2023199220152001
Current release1.0, March 202317, July 20151.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesno
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes infoon the application serverno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDmultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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