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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Ingres vs. Sphinx vs. ToroDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleWell established RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegeospock.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingressphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingressphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGeoSpockActian CorporationSphinx Technologies Inc.8Kdata
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20012016
Current release2.0, September 201911.2, May 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptCC++Java
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatornoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles

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