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DBMS > Netezza vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS vs. SQream DB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Netezza vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS vs. SQream DB vs. WakandaDB

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NameNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPort of SQLite to JavaScripta GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzasphinxsearch.comsql.js.orgsqream.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.sqream.comwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperIBMSphinx Technologies Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSQream TechnologiesWakanda SAS
Initial release20002001201220172012
Current release3.5.1, February 20232022.1.6, December 20222.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux infoincluded in applianceFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocolJavaScript API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScriptC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functions in Pythonyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonehorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnonoyes

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