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System Properties Comparison Machbase Neo vs. Qdrant vs. searchxml vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx

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NameMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitemachbase.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.searchxml.net/­category/­productsspark.apache.org/­sqlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationmachbase.com/­dbmsqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperMachbaseQdrantinformationpartners gmbhApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20132021201520142001
Current releaseV8.0, August 20231.03.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCRustC++ScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJava
Python
R
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoon the application servernono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorCollection-level replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writernono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes 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 tableyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlKey-based authenticationDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnono

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