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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. Sphinx vs. XTDB

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NamechDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#376  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­chdb-io/­chdbsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdoc.chdb.iosphinxsearch.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release202320012019
Current release3.5.1, February 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++Clojure
Server operating systemsserver-lessFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.no
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesBun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
User concepts infoAccess controlno

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