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System Properties Comparison Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sadas Engine vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sphinx

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NamePercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsSpatial extension of SQLiteOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.sadasengine.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperPerconaSADAS s.r.l.Alessandro FurieriSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB200620082001
Current release3.4.10-2.10, November 201710 R1, October 20188.05.0.0, August 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
AIX
Linux
Windows
server-lessFreeBSD
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
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
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.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 functionsnonono
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoMVCCACIDno
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'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnono

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