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System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. Realm vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB

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NameJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.jaguardb.comrealm.iosphinxsearch.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlrealm.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDataJaguar, Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Sphinx Technologies Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2015201420012018
Current release3.3 July 20233.5.1, February 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynoyes
Triggersnoyes infoChange Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsyesnoRole-based access control

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