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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. OpenEdge vs. RethinkDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score3.69
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#159  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.kinetica.comwww.progress.com/­openedgerethinkdb.comwww.sadasengine.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestrethinkdb.com/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperKineticaProgress Software CorporationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SADAS s.r.l.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20121984200920062001
Current release7.1, August 2021OpenEdge 12.2, March 20202.4.1, August 20208.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree trial version availableOpen 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++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
.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 functionsyesnono
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding inforange basedhorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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 RAMnonoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers and groupsyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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