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System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. SQream DB vs. TempoIQ vs. Trafodion

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NameSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitesphinxsearch.comsqream.comtempoiq.com (offline)trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.sqream.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.SQream TechnologiesTempoIQApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2001201720122014
Current release3.5.1, February 20232022.1.6, December 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol.Net
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions in PythonnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonoyes infoRealtime Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes 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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple authentication-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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