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System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Primary database model

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#88	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

www.jaguardb.com

objectbox.io

www.progress.com/openedge

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.objectbox.io

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Progress Software Corporation

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2015

2017

1984

2001

Current release

3.3 July 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

yes

Users and groups

More information provided by the system vendor

News

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

Vector Databases for Edge AI
9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

SQLite and SQLite alternatives – a comprehensive overview
7 June 2023

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