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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. OrigoDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comorigodb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestorigodb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperRobert Friberg et alMireoSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162009 infounder the name LiveDB20202001
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC#C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesno
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 infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.NetC#
C++
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyes infoDomain Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedFixed-grid hypercubesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynodepending on modelnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infoWrite ahead logyesyes 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole based authorizationyesno

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