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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Machbase Neo vs. Sadas Engine vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irismachbase.comwww.sadasengine.comspark.apache.org/­sqlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsmachbase.com/­dbmswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperInterSystemsMachbaseSADAS s.r.l.Apache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20182013200620142001
Current release2023.3, June 2023V8.0, August 20238.03.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++ScalaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornonenonenone
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 integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes 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.yesyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlyessimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnono
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InterSystems IRISMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxSadas EngineSpark SQLSphinx
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