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DBMS > Kinetica vs. MaxDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. MaxDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sphinx

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsSpatial extension of SQLiteOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#115  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#159  Relational DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.kinetica.commaxdb.sap.comwww.sadasengine.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentationwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperKineticaSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997SADAS s.r.l.Alessandro FurieriSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20121984200620082001
Current release7.1, August 20217.9.10.12, February 20248.05.0.0, August 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
server-lessFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnonono
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnono

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