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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB vs. Tigris

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeSearch engineKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#363  Overall
#49  Document stores
#54  Key-value stores
#22  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websiterethinkdb.comsphinxsearch.comswaydb.simer.auwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docswww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperFatCloudThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Sphinx Technologies Inc.Simer PlahaTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20122009200120182022
Current release2.4.1, August 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#C++C++Scala
Server operating systemsWindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynonoyes
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 infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)nono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Proprietary protocolCLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsnonono
Triggersyes infovia applicationsClient-side triggers through changefeedsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding inforange basedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes infousers and table-level permissionsnonoAccess rights for users and roles

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