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System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.searchxml.net/category/products

sphinxsearch.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Oracle

informationpartners gmbh

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2011

2015

2001

2012

Current release

23.3, December 2023

1.0

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

multiple readers, single writer

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

simple authentication-based access control

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