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DBMS > Galaxybase vs. Geode vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Geode vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.comgeode.apache.orgsphinxsearch.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2017200220012012
Current releaseNov 20, November 20211.1, February 20173.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights per client and object definablenono

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