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System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsOpen 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 lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiterethinkdb.comwww.sadasengine.comsphinxsearch.comswaydb.simer.autinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SADAS s.r.l.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release20092006200120182009
Current release2.4.1, August 20208.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++ScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesnonoyes
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 fieldsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocolTinkerPop 3
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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basedhorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC basedyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnonono

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