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System Properties Comparison Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sphinx vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Document store

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Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Percona

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2001

2019

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.5.1, February 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST
JDBC

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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