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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Sphinx vs. XTDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

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Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2001

2019

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.5.1, February 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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