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DBMS > Sphinx vs. Transbase vs. Vitess vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. Transbase vs. Vitess vs. YDB

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NameSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational 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
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitesphinxsearch.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvitess.iogithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvitess.io/­docsydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.Transaction Software GmbHThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleYandex
Initial release2001198720132019
Current release3.5.1, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C and C++Go
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 fieldsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes 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.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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