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System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Search engine

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	6.95
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Score	0.01
Rank	#348	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

sphinxsearch.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2001

2011

Current release

3.4.1, July 2021

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

.Net

Supported programming languages

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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