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System Properties Comparison Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sphinx

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NameMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerOracles in-memory data grid solutionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitemachbase.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationmachbase.com/­dbmsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperMachbaseMicrosoftOracleSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2013201020072001
Current releaseV8.0, August 2023V1214.1, August 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree test version availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLnono
Triggersnoyesyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes, with always 3 replicas availableyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyes infooptionallyyes 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 infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno

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