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DBMS > Sphinx vs. SQream DB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. SQream DB vs. SurrealDB

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NameSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.92
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.63
Rank#229  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.01
Rank#181  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitesphinxsearch.comsqream.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.sqream.comsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.SQream TechnologiesSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release200120172022
Current release3.5.1, February 20232022.1.6, December 2022v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaRust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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