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DBMS > BigObject vs. Lovefield vs. OushuDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Lovefield vs. OushuDB vs. Sphinx

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebigobject.iogoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.oushu.com/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.GoogleOushuSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release201520142001
Current release2.1.12, February 20174.0.1, August 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternFull-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyesno
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, 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.yesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoKerberos, SSL and role based accessno

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