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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Sphinx vs. Tibero vs. Vertica vs. YDB

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from OracleCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.59
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsphinxsearch.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tiberowww.vertica.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docstechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.htmlvertica.com/­documentationydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.TmaxSoftOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardYandex
Initial release19942001200320052019
Current release4.4, October 20213.5.1, February 20236, April 201512.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersno
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Implementation languageCC++C and AssemblerC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.SQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesno
Triggersnonoyesyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or compositehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.Active-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infoBi-directional Spark integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.nono infoplanned for next versionnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hashAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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mSQL infoMini SQLSphinxTiberoVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™YDB
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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