DBMS > JSqlDb vs. RDFox vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. RDFox vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.mireo.com/spacetime

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Mireo

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2018

2017

2020

2001

2011

Current release

0.8, December 2018

6.0, Septermber 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
Java

C#
C++
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

replication via a shared file system

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

using RocksDB

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Roles, resources, and access types

yes

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