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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen 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 DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlspark.apache.org/­sqlsphinxsearch.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedSAP infoformerly SybaseApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20121992201420011987
Current release21.2, February 202117, July 20153.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.5.1, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++ 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 proceduresyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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