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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. JaguarDB vs. PouchDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Search engine

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Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#14	Vector DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

pouchdb.com/guides

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

DataJaguar, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2017

2015

2012

2001

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

3.3 July 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

via views

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

rights management via user accounts

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