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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Sphinx vs. Tkrzw vs. ToroDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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.

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

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

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

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

sphinxsearch.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

github.com/torodb/server

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

8Kdata

Transwarp

Initial release

2004

2001

2020

2016

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.5.1, February 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

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

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

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

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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.

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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