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DBMS > GBase vs. Lovefield vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak KV vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Lovefield vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak KV vs. Sphinx

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.gbase.cngoogle.github.io/­lovefieldgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.objectbox.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GoogleObjectBox LimitedOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20042014201720092001
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.1.12, February 20174.0 (May 2024)3.2.0, December 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaScriptC and C++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesnono
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestrictedyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#JavaScriptC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoErlangno
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes 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.yes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyesyes, using Riak Securityno
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