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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Lovefield vs. RDFox vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

galaxybase.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

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

Google

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2017

2014

2017

2001

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

6.0, Septermber 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

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

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

RDF schemas

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

JavaScript

C
Java

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

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Roles, resources, and access types

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