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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA 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.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.67
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.82
Rank#213  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssphinxsearch.comwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdb
Technical documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssphinxsearch.com/­docswww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
DeveloperHughes Technologiesinformationpartners gmbhSphinx Technologies Inc.Tencent
Initial release1994201520012013
Current release4.4, October 20211.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageCC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoon the application servernoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writernoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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