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System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. SwayDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.jaguardb.com

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

STS Soft SC

Simer Plaha

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2015

2001

2011

2018

2020

Current release

3.3 July 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

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