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DBMS > mSQL vs. Quasardb vs. Sphinx vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Quasardb vs. Sphinx vs. Yaacomo

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
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Score1.67
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlquasar.aisphinxsearch.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesquasardbSphinx Technologies Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release1994200920012009
Current release4.4, October 20213.14.1, January 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binarynoyes
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 indexesyesyes infowith tagsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIProprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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