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System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. searchxml vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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NameRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiterethinkdb.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsspark.apache.org/­sqlsphinxsearch.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017informationpartners gmbhApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20092015201420011987
Current release2.4.1, August 20201.03.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.5.1, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ScalaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
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
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJava
Python
R
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoon the application servernonoyes
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basednoneyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsmultiple readers, single writernonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC basedyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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