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System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. Sphinx vs. SurrealDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websitensdb.iosphinxsearch.comsurrealdb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturesphinxsearch.com/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.SurrealDB LtdTranswarp
Initial release201720012022
Current release3.5.1, February 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, ScalaC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringnoyes
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.no
Secondary indexesall fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Proprietary protocolGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
OpenCypher
Supported programming languagesJava
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentUsing Apache Luceneyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes

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