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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. LevelDB vs. Sphinx

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeSearch engine
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Score0.30
Rank#294  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#107  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­google/­leveldbsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSoftmotionsGoogleSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release201220112001
Current release1.23, February 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageCC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-lessIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnono
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.no
Secondary indexesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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