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System Properties Comparison Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Sphinx vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

postgis.net

sphinxsearch.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

postgis.net/documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Percona

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2015

2005

2001

1998

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.4.2, February 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
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

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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