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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSearch engine
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
sphinxsearch.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperBaseX GmbHObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.Transwarp
Initial release200720172001
Current release11.0, June 20244.0 (May 2024)3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesnoyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Proprietary native APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyesno
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