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DBMS > Riak KV vs. Rockset vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. Rockset vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB

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NameRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBSADAS 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 databasesA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiterockset.comwww.sadasengine.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.rockset.comwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesRocksetSADAS s.r.l.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release20092019200620012020
Current release3.2.0, December 20228.03.5.1, February 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenodynamic typingyesno
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesrestrictedall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocolProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangnononono
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic shardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be storednoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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