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DBMS > Greenplum vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.71
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegreenplum.orgwww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.kinetica.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.KineticaMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2005201220152001
Current release7.0.0, September 20237.1, August 2021V13.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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