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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. mSQL vs. PouchDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scalemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#159  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegeospock.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlpouchdb.comwww.sadasengine.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guideswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGeoSpockHughes TechnologiesApache Software FoundationSADAS s.r.l.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release1994201220062001
Current release2.0, September 20194.4, October 20217.1.1, June 20198.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptCJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyes infovia viewsyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungehorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes 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.nonoyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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