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System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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NameJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSObject oriented DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.jaguardb.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseobjectbox.iosphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDataJaguar, Inc.MicrosoftObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20152010201720012011
Current release3.3 July 2023V123.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++C and C++C++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIProprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, with always 3 replicas availableonline/offline synchronization between client and servernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnono
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JaguarDBMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureObjectBoxSphinxSTSdb
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