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System Properties Comparison SAP HANA vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

sphinxsearch.com/docs

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

SAP

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

STS Soft SC

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2010

2001

2011

2003

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

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

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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