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System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. TimescaleDB vs. Valentina Server

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NameSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen 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 methodA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitesphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.timescale.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.timescale.comvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SCTimescaleParadigma Software
Initial release2001201120171999
Current release3.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 20152.13.0, November 20235.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C#C
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.yes
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
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.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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