DBMS > Sphinx vs. SQLite vs. ToroDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. SQLite vs. ToroDB vs. Transbase

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

sphinxsearch.com

www.sqlite.org

github.com/torodb/server

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

8Kdata

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2001

2000

2016

1987

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL-V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

All OS with a Java 7 VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial 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
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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