DBMS > mSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

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Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rocksdb.org

www.sequoiadb.com

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1994

2013

2001

2011

Current release

4.4, October 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

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