DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > MarkLogic vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison MarkLogic vs. Sphinx

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Our visitors often compare MarkLogic and Sphinx with Elasticsearch, Solr and MongoDB.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.79
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#5  Search engines
Score5.97
Rank#69  Overall
#8  Search engines
Websitewww.marklogic.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.marklogic.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperMarkLogic Corp.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20012001
Current release11.0, December 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno
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.yes
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL92SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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, with Range Indexes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsno

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
MarkLogicSphinx
DB-Engines blog posts

The DB-Engines ranking includes now search engines
4 February 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Progress's $355m move for MarkLogic sets the tone for 2023
4 January 2023, The Stack

Progress Completes Acquisition of MarkLogic
7 February 2023, GlobeNewswire

Metadata Management Matters, Progress To Acquire MarkLogic
4 January 2023, Forbes

Progress to acquire PE-backed data platform MarkLogic for $355m
4 January 2023, PE Hub

Progress Software acquires NoSQL data integration engine MarkLogic
4 January 2023, SiliconANGLE News

provided by Google News

Pirate Bay Downtime 'Caused by Malicious Attack, Proxies May be to Blame'
29 October 2019, TorrentFreak

Nameless stamps of the Americas and Africa
1 April 2016, Linn's Stamp News

[Product Roadmap] How Matrimony.com has become the go-to platform for Indian matchmaking
27 January 2021, YourStory

Best ETTV Proxy/ Mirror & ETTV Alternatives 2023
17 October 2023, Techworm

6 Top & Best Open source Search Engine Software for Enterprises
17 June 2019, H2S Media

provided by Google News

Job opportunities

Marklogic DBA
Amiga Informatics, Fort Worth, TX

Marklogic DBA
Galactic Minds Inc, Fort Worth, TX

Full Stack Developer
ABBVIE, Lake County, IL

Marklogic Developer
Inventech info Solutions, Fort Worth, TX

MarkLogic DBA Consultant
Spero LLC, Lewisville, TX

jobs by Indeed



Share this page

Featured Products

AllegroGraph logo

Graph Database Leader for AI Knowledge Graph Applications - The Most Secure Graph Database Available.
Free Download

Redis logo

The world’s most loved real‑time data platform.
Try free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

MariaDB logo

SkySQL, the ultimate
MariaDB cloud, is here.

Get started with SkySQL today!

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here