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System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. SurrealDB

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NameSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.72
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.08
Rank#176  Overall
#30  Document stores
#16  Graph DBMS
Websitesphinxsearch.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20012022
Current release3.5.1, February 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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