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DBMS > Sphinx vs. TerarkDB vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. TerarkDB vs. YTsaurus

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NameSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#340  Overall
#45  Document stores
#50  Key-value stores
Websitesphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.ByteDance, originally TerarkYandex
Initial release200120162023
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Ubuntu
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes 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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess Control Lists

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