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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sphinx vs. Tkrzw vs. ToroDB

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Name

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

Description

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

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

Primary database model

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

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.09
Rank	#354	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

sphinxsearch.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Oracle

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

8Kdata

Initial release

2007

2001

2020

2016

Current release

GBase 8a

14.1, August 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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