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DBMS > mSQL vs. Sphinx vs. SQLite vs. Tibero vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Sphinx vs. SQLite vs. Tibero vs. Tigris

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  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 RDBMSA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from OracleA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score1.78
Rank#140  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsphinxsearch.comwww.sqlite.orgus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tiberowww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmltechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.htmlwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.Dwayne Richard HippTmaxSoftTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release19942001200020032022
Current release4.4, October 20213.5.1, February 20233.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 20246, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoPublic DomaincommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++CC and Assembler
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infodynamic column typesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes 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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyesyes
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 supportedyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP 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
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)no
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonehorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or compositeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
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, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)Access rights for users and roles

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