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System Properties Comparison RavenDB vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB vs. Teradata vs. Transbase

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NameRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiteravendb.netsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.teradata.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationravendb.net/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.teradata.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperHibernating RhinosSphinx Technologies Inc.Alex KashirinTeradataTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20102001202019841987
Current release5.4, July 20223.5.1, February 20230.5, April 2021Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#C++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhosted
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query languageyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolProprietary protocol
Thrift
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablenoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAuthorization levels configured per client per databasenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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