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System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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NameRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiterethinkdb.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlsphinxsearch.comswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Sybase, SAPSphinx Technologies Inc.Simer PlahaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20091993200120182019
Current release2.4.1, August 20203.5.1, February 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ScalaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesnonoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)nolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basednoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
nonenoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDnoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC basedyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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