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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sphinx

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitehsqldb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)PerconaSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2001198420152001
Current release2.7.2, June 20237.4.1.1, 20213.4.10-2.10, November 20173.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesHP Open VMSLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
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++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLJavaScriptno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenono
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.yesnoyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesno

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