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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. ObjectBox vs. Sadas Engine vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#159  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.sadasengine.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comdocs.objectbox.iowww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperKineticaObjectBox LimitedSADAS s.r.l.informationpartners gmbhSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122017200620152001
Current release7.1, August 20214.0 (May 2024)8.01.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C and C++C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesyesno
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDmultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno
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