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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. IRONdb vs. Sphinx

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

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

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Softmotions

Circonus LLC.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

2001

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

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