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DBMS > mSQL vs. Sphinx vs. SQLite vs. STSdb vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Sphinx vs. SQLite vs. STSdb vs. TerarkDB

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score103.35
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsphinxsearch.comwww.sqlite.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.Dwayne Richard HippSTS Soft SCByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release19942001200020112016
Current release4.4, October 20213.5.1, February 20233.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++CC#C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessWindows
Data schemeyesyesyes infodynamic column typesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)no
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
.NET Client APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C#
Java
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyes infovia file-system locksyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononono

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