DBMS > Dgraph vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

sphinxsearch.com

sql.js.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2008

2001

2012

2000

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

3.5.1, February 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

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