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System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. XTDB vs. Yandex Database (YDB)

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Name

Description

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	6.95
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#357	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
xtdb.com

cloud.yandex.com/en/services/ydb
github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

xtdb.com/docs

cloud.yandex.com/en/docs/managed-ydb
ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Yandex

Initial release

2001

2019

Current release

3.4.1, July 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Clojure
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, each node contains all data

Active-passive shard replication

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, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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