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DBMS > Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. MaxDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. MaxDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sphinx

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsSpatial extension of SQLiteOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmaxdb.sap.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSpotifySAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Alessandro FurieriSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20142014198420082001
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20245.0.0, August 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-lessFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyesnono
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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