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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. RDF4J vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. RDF4J vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
RDF storeSearch engineWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitealasql.orgrdf4j.orgsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlrdf4j.org/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release2014200420012020
Current release3.5.1, February 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno
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 indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Proprietary protocolProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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