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DBMS > IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRDF storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engine
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Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rdf4j.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.informationpartners gmbhSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2017200420152001
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20181.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesno
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.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luayesyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedmultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes 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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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