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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Sequoiadb vs. SingleStore vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score4.02
Rank#74  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.sequoiadb.comwww.singlestore.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.singlestore.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesSequoiadb Ltd.SingleStore Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release19942013201320012011
Current release4.4, October 20218.5, January 20243.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++, GoC++C#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
LinuxLinux info64 bit version requiredFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONCluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptyesnono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infohash partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoDocument is locked during a transactionACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesnono

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