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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx vs. YottaDB

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelEvent StoreNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssphinxsearch.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssphinxsearch.com/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperEvent Store Limitedinformationpartners gmbhSphinx Technologies Inc.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release2012201520012001
Current release21.2, February 20211.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)by using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocolPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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