DBMS > GBase vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.snowflake.com

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

2004

2014

2001

2016

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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