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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. InfinityDB vs. mSQL vs. Sphinx vs. Vitess

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfacemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.comboilerbay.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsphinxsearch.comvitess.io
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualsphinxsearch.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Boiler Bay Inc.Hughes TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20172002199420012013
Current releaseNov 20, November 20214.04.4, October 20213.5.1, February 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaCC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeStrong typed schemayes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesnoyes
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 indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
JavaC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsnononoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDnoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnonoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnononoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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