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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Sphinx vs. SQream DB

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Search engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitesphinxsearch.comsqream.com
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperFatCloudSphinx Technologies Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release201220012017
Current release3.5.1, February 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC#C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsWindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Proprietary protocol.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsno

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