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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Immudb vs. Sphinx

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.24
Rank#305  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitecachelot.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.immudb.iosphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CodenotarySphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2015201220202001
Current release1.2.3, April 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++GoC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like syntaxSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes 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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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