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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Quasardb vs. RDF4J vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Quasardb vs. RDF4J vs. Sphinx

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRDF storeSearch engine
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbquasar.airdf4j.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbdoc.quasar.ai/­masterrdf4j.org/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperExasolPerconaquasardbSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20002015200920042001
Current release3.4.10-2.10, November 20173.14.1, January 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesno
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 indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
proprietary protocol using JSONHTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJavaScriptnoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding 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 with selectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyeswith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes 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.yesyes infovia In-Memory Engineyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnono

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