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System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

terminusdb.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

STS Soft SC

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2001

2011

2018

2023

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java

JavaScript
Python

C++
Java
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

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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