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System Properties Comparison MongoDB vs. Realm vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

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

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#5	Overall
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Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	41.47
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

realm.io/docs

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

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.teradata.com

Developer

MongoDB, Inc

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SADAS s.r.l.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2009

2014

2006

2001

1984

Current release

7.0.5, January 2024

8.0

3.5.1, February 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

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

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

AI-enriched intelligent apps (Continental, Telefonica, Iron Mountain) Internet of...
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Key customers

ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metrics

Hundreds of millions downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month...
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Licensing and pricing models

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