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System Properties Comparison Machbase Neo vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS vs. Yaacomo

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NameMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPort of SQLite to JavaScriptOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitemachbase.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlsphinxsearch.comsql.js.orgyaacomo.com
Technical documentationmachbase.com/­dbmswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperMachbaseOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Sphinx Technologies Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20131984200120122009
Current releaseV8.0, August 20237.4.1.1, 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree test version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
HP Open VMSFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Proprietary protocolJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tablenoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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