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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. GBase vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. GBase vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelEvent StoreRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.14
Rank#181  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score1.04
Rank#190  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.gbase.cnsphinxsearch.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release201220011987
Current release21.2, February 2021GBase 8a3.5.1, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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