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DBMS > MonetDB vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsApplication development environment with integrated database management systemRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score3.69
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.monetdb.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperMonetDB BVProgress Software CorporationSAP infoformerly SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2004198419922001
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 202017, July 20153.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes infoclose to SQL 92yesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C
C#
C++
Delphi
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, in SQL, C, Ryesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4noneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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