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System Properties Comparison OpenTenBase vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sphinx vs. Teradata Aster vs. YDB

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Spatial extension of SQLite

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.39
Rank	#269	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#126	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Alessandro Furieri

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Teradata

Yandex

Initial release

2008

2001

2005

2019

Current release

2.5, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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