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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Sphinx vs. ToroDB vs. Typesense vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Sphinx vs. ToroDB vs. Typesense vs. Warp 10

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivityTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineDocument storeSearch engineTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.76
Rank#219  Overall
#14  Search engines
Score0.14
Rank#344  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­torodb/­servertypesense.orgwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsphinxsearch.com/­docstypesense.org/­docswww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Sphinx Technologies Inc.8KdataSenX
Initial release20102001201620152015
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL-V3Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++JavaC++Java
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free infopre-defined schema optionalschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoyes infoWarpScript
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users and rolesMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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