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System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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NameRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engineKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Websitesphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2009200120112018
Current release3.2.0, December 20223.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangnonoyes
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnonoyes
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 supportednoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be storednonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
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 infoin-memory journaling
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, using Riak SecuritynonoRole-based access control

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