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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. JaguarDB vs. ObjectBox vs. PouchDB vs. Sphinx

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Object oriented DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.jaguardb.comobjectbox.iopouchdb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.objectbox.iopouchdb.com/­guidessphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookDataJaguar, Inc.ObjectBox LimitedApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122015201720122001
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.3 July 20237.1.1, June 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC and C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
JavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes 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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesrights management via user accountsyesnono
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