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System Properties Comparison Quasardb vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS vs. Vitess vs. WakandaDB

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NameQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPort of SQLite to JavaScriptScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitequasar.aisphinxsearch.comsql.js.orgvitess.iowakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersphinxsearch.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlvitess.io/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperquasardbSphinx Technologies Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleWakanda SAS
Initial release20092001201220132012
Current release3.14.1, January 20243.5.1, February 202315.0.2, December 20222.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaScriptGoC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infointeger and binarynoyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infowith tagsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocolJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoproprietary syntaxyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using LevelDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes

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