DB-EnginesextremeDB - Data management wherever you need itEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.searchxml.net/­category/­productssphinxsearch.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aiwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.informationpartners gmbhSphinx Technologies Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release2016201520012018
Current release5.10, January 20221.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxWindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoon the application servernono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnonenone
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 integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writernoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnono

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022searchxmlSphinxSwayDB
DB-Engines blog posts

The DB-Engines ranking includes now search engines
4 February 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

5 Q’s for Mike Flaxman, Vice President of Heavy.AI
15 August 2024, Center for Data Innovation

Dr. Mike Flaxman, VP or Product Management at HEAVY.AI – Interview Series
19 September 2024, Unite.AI

HEAVY.AI Accelerates Big Data Analytics with Vultr's High-Performance GPU Cloud Infrastructure
11 September 2024, insideBIGDATA

HEAVY.AI Accelerates Big Data Analytics with Vultr’s High-Performance GPU Cloud Infrastructure
11 September 2024, insideBIGDATA

HEAVY.AI Launches HEAVY 7.0, Introducing Real-Time Machine Learning Capabilities
19 April 2023, Business Wire

provided by Google News

Switching From Sphinx to MkDocs Documentation — What Did I Gain and Lose?
2 February 2024, Towards Data Science

Manticore is a Faster Alternative to Elasticsearch in C++
25 July 2022, hackernoon.com

Beyond the Concert Hall: 5 Organizations Making a Difference in Classical Music in 2018
22 December 2018, WQXR Radio

The Pirate Bay was recently down for over a week due to a DDoS attack
29 October 2019, The Hacker News

Leading Local Search Engine (Just) Dials Open Source for a Growth Call!
1 September 2010, Open Source For You

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

Present your product here