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DBMS > Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.03
Rank#122  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegalaxybase.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverspark.apache.org/­sqlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司MicrosoftPerconaApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20172015200820142001
Current releaseNov 20, November 2021V18.0.36-28, 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and JavaC and C++ScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeStrong typed schemayesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsnoyesnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnono

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