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DBMS > Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. Yaacomo

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NameRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiterockset.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsphinxsearch.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.rockset.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperRocksetSAP infoformerly SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release2019199220012009
Current release17, July 20153.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datedynamic typingyesnoyes
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.no infoingestion from XML files supportedyesno
Secondary indexesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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