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System Properties Comparison ITTIA vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.36
Rank	#272	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ittia.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

sphinxsearch.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

ITTIA L.L.C.

Microsoft

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2007

2015

2001

2010

Current release

8.7

3.5.1, February 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Database file passwords

yes

using Azure authentication

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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