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DBMS > SpaceTime vs. Sphinx vs. YDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison SpaceTime vs. Sphinx vs. YDB vs. YottaDB

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NameSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible APIA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.39
Rank#269  Overall
#43  Document stores
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#309  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Websitewww.mireo.com/­spacetimesphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
yottadb.com
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsydb.tech/­en/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperMireoSphinx Technologies Inc.YandexYottaDB, LLC
Initial release2020200120192001
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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 indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (YQL)by using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFixed-grid hypercubesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)noneActive-passive shard replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud usersUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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