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System Properties Comparison Sequoiadb vs. Sphinx vs. Teradata vs. TinkerGraph vs. Transbase

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NameSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.sequoiadb.comsphinxsearch.comwww.teradata.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.teradata.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperSequoiadb Ltd.Sphinx Technologies Inc.TeradataTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20132001198420091987
Current release3.5.1, February 2023Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexnoyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSONProprietary protocol.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
TinkerPop 3ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Groovy
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptnoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelnoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoHashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataDocument is locked during a transactionnoACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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