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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. LokiJS vs. OpenEdge vs. PouchDB vs. Sphinx

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraIn-memory JavaScript DBMSApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.progress.com/­openedgepouchdb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikitechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestpouchdb.com/­guidessphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperRackspaceProgress Software CorporationApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20132014198420122001
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 20207.1.1, June 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnono
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)JavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes 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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers and groupsnono

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