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System Properties Comparison openGauss vs. Sphinx vs. Valentina Server vs. YottaDB

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NameopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesObject-relational database and reports serverA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitegitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
sphinxsearch.comwww.valentina-db.netyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
sphinxsearch.com/­docsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.phpyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperHuawei and openGauss communitySphinx Technologies Inc.Paradigma SoftwareYottaDB, LLC
Initial release2019200119992001
Current release3.0, March 20223.5.1, February 20235.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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 indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL 2011SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolODBCPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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