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System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Lovefield vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
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Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

google.github.io/lovefield

objectbox.io

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.objectbox.io

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Google

ObjectBox Limited

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2014

2017

2001

2011

Current release

1703

2.1.12, February 2017

3.5.1, February 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

JavaScript

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

yes

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