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DBMS > Ingres vs. Sphinx vs. Yanza vs. YottaDB

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

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 databasesTime Series DBMS for IoT ApplicationsA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingressphinxsearch.comyanza.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingressphinxsearch.com/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperActian CorporationSphinx Technologies Inc.YanzaYottaDB, LLC
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s200120152001
Current release11.2, May 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree version availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanzano
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Implementation languageCC++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsDocker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonono
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 fieldsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Proprietary protocolHTTP APIPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
any language that supports HTTP callsC
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyesnoyes 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 supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatornonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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