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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. ObjectBox vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PouchDB vs. Sphinx

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSDocument storeDocument storeSearch 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
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitealtibase.comobjectbox.iowww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbpouchdb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.objectbox.iodocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbpouchdb.com/­guidessphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseObjectBox LimitedPerconaApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release19992017201520122001
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.4.10-2.10, November 20177.1.1, June 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary native APIproprietary protocol using JSONHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
JavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoJavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes 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.yesnoyes infovia In-Memory Engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users and rolesnono
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