DBMS > HarperDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
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Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.harperdb.io

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

rocksdb.org

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

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

HarperDB

Percona

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2017

2015

2013

1992

2001

Current release

3.1, August 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

JavaScript

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using LMDB

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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