DBMS > Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sadas Engine vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sadas Engine vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.kinetica.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.sadasengine.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Kinetica

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

informationpartners gmbh

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

2006

2015

2001

Current release

7.1, August 2021

8.0

1.0

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

multiple readers, single writer

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.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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