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System Properties Comparison Machbase vs. Sphinx

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Name	Machbase Former name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison	Sphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Description	TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData	Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Search engine
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Website	www.machbase.com	sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentation	machbase.atlassian.net/­wiki/­spaces/­MAN/­overview	sphinxsearch.com/­docs
Developer	Machbase	Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release	2013	2001
Current release	V6.5, August 2021	3.4.1, July 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free test version available	Open Source GPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no
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Implementation language	C	C++
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	FreeBSD Linux NetBSD OS X Solaris Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	no
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.	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes full-text index on all search fields
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST JDBC ODBC	Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages	C C# C++ Java JavaScript PHP via ODBC Python R via ODBC Scala	C++ unofficial client library Java Perl unofficial client library PHP Python Ruby unofficial client library
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no
Triggers	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	Sharding Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	selectable replication factor	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	no	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 volatile and lookup table
User concepts Access control	simple password-based access control	no
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