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System Properties Comparison PieCloudDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

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NamePieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsOLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#341  Overall
#149  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.openpie.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsphinxsearch.comterminusdb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundb
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperOpenPieSAP infoformerly SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.DataChemist Ltd.Transwarp
Initial release199220012018
Current release2.1, January 202317, July 20153.5.1, February 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava
PL/SQL
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnoyesyes
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedGraph Partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnoneJournaling Streams
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 integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access controlyes
More information provided by the system vendor
PieCloudDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSphinxTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTranswarp KunDB
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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