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System Properties Comparison Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. PostGIS vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx

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NamePercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPSpatial extension of PostgreSQLSADAS 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 databases
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.openpie.compostgis.netwww.sadasengine.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbpostgis.net/­documentationwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperPerconaOpenPieSADAS s.r.l.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2015200520062001
Current release3.4.10-2.10, November 20172.1, January 20233.4.2, February 20248.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSONCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.yes infovia In-Memory Enginenoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
Percona Server for MongoDBPieCloudDBPostGISSadas EngineSphinx
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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