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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. SQream DB

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Sparka GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Object oriented DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comobjectbox.iosphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.comsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.Splice MachineSQream Technologies
Initial release20002017200120142017
Current release15.5, September 20203.5.1, February 20233.1, March 20212022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC and C++C++JavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary native APIProprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoJavauser defined functions in Python
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
online/offline synchronization between client and servernoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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