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DBMS > Speedb vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Speedb vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB vs. ToroDB

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NameSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineKey-value storeDocument store
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Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.speedb.iosphinxsearch.comswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSpeedbSphinx Technologies Inc.Simer Plaha8Kdata
Initial release2020200120182016
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users and roles
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SpeedbSphinxSwayDBToroDB
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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