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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx

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NameApache Doris  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocolLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.60
Rank#247  Overall
#113  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitedoris.apache.org
github.com/­apache/­doris
www.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldobjectbox.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­apache/­doris/­wikidocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from BaiduEmbarcaderoGoogleObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20171984201420172001
Current release1.2.2, February 2023InterBase 2020, December 20192.1.12, February 20173.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaScriptC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL client
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenonono
TriggersnoyesUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInterbase Change Viewsnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes 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.noyesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesno
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