DB-EnginesExtremeDB: mitigate connectivity issues in a DBMSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Newts vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Newts vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameNewts  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS based on CassandraEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteopennms.github.io/­newtsrocksdb.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikigithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperOpenNMS GroupFacebook, Inc.informationpartners gmbhSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2014201320152001
Current release9.2.1, May 20241.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxWindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Java API
C++ API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesmultiple readers, single writerno
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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
3rd partiesSpeedb: A high performance RocksDB-compliant key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads.
» more

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

More resources
NewtsRocksDBsearchxmlSphinx
DB-Engines blog posts

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

show all

Recent citations in the news

Did Rockset Just Solve Real-Time Analytics?
25 August 2021, Datanami

Meta’s Velox Means Database Performance Is Not Subject To Interpretation
31 August 2022, The Next Platform

Linux 6.9 Drives AMD 4th Gen EPYC Performance Even Higher For Some Workloads
29 March 2024, Phoronix

Facebook's MyRocks Truly Rocks!
21 September 2020, Open Source For You

Power your Kafka Streams application with Amazon MSK and AWS Fargate | Amazon Web Services
10 August 2021, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

Switching From Sphinx to MkDocs Documentation — What Did I Gain and Lose
2 February 2024, Towards Data Science

5 Powerful Alternatives to Elasticsearch
25 April 2024, Insider Monkey

Manticore is a Faster Alternative to Elasticsearch in C++
25 July 2022, hackernoon.com

Royal Mail stamp prices could rise, warns Czech Sphinx
3 June 2024, Proactive Investors UK

Perplexity AI: From Its Use To Operation, Everything You Need To Know About Google's Newest Challenger
11 January 2024, Free Press Journal

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

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

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for 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

Present your product here