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DBMS > gStore vs. Sphinx vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison gStore vs. Sphinx vs. XTDB

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NamegStore  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Open 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 modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Search engineDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.03
Rank#367  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websiteen.gstore.cnsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocssphinxsearch.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release201620012019
Current release1.2, November 20233.5.1, February 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen 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++C++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes, 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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
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 methodsnonono
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedno

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