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System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. Sphinx vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

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NameRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitesphinxsearch.comsqream.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.sqream.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.SQream TechnologiesApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2009200120172014
Current release3.2.0, December 20223.5.1, February 20232022.1.6, December 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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
Secondary indexesrestrictedyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangnouser defined functions in PythonJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be storednonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, using Riak Securitynofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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