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System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. SQLite vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TerminusDB

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NameSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#205  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitesphinxsearch.comwww.sqlite.orgwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdbterminusdb.com
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042terminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.Dwayne Richard HippTencentDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2001200020132018
Current release3.5.1, February 20233.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoPublic DomaincommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lesshostedLinux
Data schemeyesyes infodynamic column typesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yesyes
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 indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC++ 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
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneAutomatic shardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infovia file-system locksyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access control

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