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System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. Sphinx

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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

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

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

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Score	5.72
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2018

2001

Current release

0.8, December 2018

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

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