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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. FileMaker vs. LMDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Sphinx

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdborigodb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docorigodb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperEsgynClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSymasRobert Friberg et alSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2015198320112009 infounder the name LiveDB2001
Current release19.4.1, November 20210.9.32, January 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaCC#C++
Server operating systemsLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsno
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infovia pluginsnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetPHP.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
.NetC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes 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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoRole based authorizationno

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