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DBMS > LMDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. NuoDB vs. Sphinx vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. NuoDB vs. Sphinx vs. Vitess

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NameLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbmachbase.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasesphinxsearch.comvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docmachbase.com/­dbmsdoc.nuodb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperSymasMachbaseDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20112013201320012013
Current release0.9.32, January 2024V8.0, August 20233.5.1, February 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial infofree test version availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCC++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava, SQLnoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocolnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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