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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Lovefield vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTenBase vs. Sphinx

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTenBase  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileAn enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#370  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitealtibase.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldobjectbox.iogithub.com/­OpenTenBase/­OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.objectbox.iodocs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/­en
sphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseGoogleObjectBox LimitedOpenAtom Foundation, previously TencentSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release1999201420172001
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.1.12, February 20172.5, January 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary native APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScriptC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
Go
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonono
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno
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