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System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. SwayDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Yanza

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NameSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen 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 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.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#205  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitesphinxsearch.comswaydb.simer.auwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdbyanza.com
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.Simer PlahaTencentYanza
Initial release2001201820132015
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++Scala
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesno
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 fieldsnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
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 integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of operationsACIDno
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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