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DBMS > Oracle Rdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Oracle Rdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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NameOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.23
Rank#180  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#371  Overall
#155  Relational DBMS
Score6.06
Rank#61  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.20
Rank#327  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.sadasengine.comsphinxsearch.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)SADAS s.r.l.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release1984200620011987
Current release7.4.1.1, 20218.03.5.1, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsHP Open VMSAIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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