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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	0.16
Rank	#324	Overall
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Score	0.39
Rank	#265	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	5.91
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.sequoiadb.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Esgyn

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2015

2013

2001

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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