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

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.claris.com/filemaker

origodb.com

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

origodb.com/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Esgyn

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Robert Friberg et al

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

2015

1983

2009

under the name LiveDB

2001

2016

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

PHP

.Net

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Role based authorization

Access rights for users and roles

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