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DBMS > Sphinx vs. SWC-DB vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. SWC-DB vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Transbase

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NameSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.85
Rank#205  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitesphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdbwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.Alex KashirinTencentTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2001202020131987
Current release3.5.1, February 20230.5, April 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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 indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolProprietary protocol
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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