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DBMS > Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph vs. Vitess vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph vs. Vitess vs. Yanza

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NameSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitesphinxsearch.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinvitess.ioyanza.com
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleYanza
Initial release2001200920132015
Current release3.5.1, February 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaGo
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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 fieldsnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolTinkerPop 3ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Groovy
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoproprietary syntaxno
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 supportednoneShardingnone
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 systemnoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.optionalyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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