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System Properties Comparison Sadas Engine vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx

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NameSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.sadasengine.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlspark.apache.org/­sqlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSADAS s.r.l.SAP infoformerly SybaseApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2006199220142001
Current release8.017, July 20153.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
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 Perlnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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