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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. Linter vs. OpenQM vs. Sphinx

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityRDBMS for high security requirementsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comlinter.ruwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCognitectrelex.ruRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20132012199019932001
Current release1.0.6735, June 20233.4-123.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureC and C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLyesno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes 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.noyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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