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System Properties Comparison MarkLogic vs. NSDb vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

docs.marklogic.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

MarkLogic Corp.

SADAS s.r.l.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2001

2017

2006

2001

Current release

11.0, December 2022

8.0

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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, with Range Indexes

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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