DBMS > H2 vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

sphinxsearch.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Rockset

SAP

formerly Sybase

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2005

2019

1992

2001

2000

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

17, July 2015

3.5.1, February 2023

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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