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DBMS > Postgres-XL vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB vs. Tkrzw vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Postgres-XL vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB vs. Tkrzw vs. Valentina Server

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NamePostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.postgres-xl.orgsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
dbmx.net/­tkrzwwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.Alex KashirinMikio HirabayashiParadigma Software
Initial release2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2001202020201999
Current release10 R1, October 20183.5.1, February 20230.5, April 20210.9.3, August 20205.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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.yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocolProprietary protocol
Thrift
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++C++
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnononoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing specific database classesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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