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DBMS > Ingres vs. Sphinx vs. Trafodion vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Sphinx vs. Trafodion vs. Yanza

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWell established RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingressphinxsearch.comtrafodion.apache.orgyanza.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingressphinxsearch.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperActian CorporationSphinx Technologies Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPYanza
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s200120142015
Current release11.2, May 20223.5.1, February 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Netany language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersyesnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatornoneyes, via HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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