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System Properties Comparison Linter vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sphinx vs. SurrealDB

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NameLinter  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRDBMS for high security requirementsSpatial extension of SQLiteOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitelinter.ruwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsphinxsearch.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
Developerrelex.ruAlessandro FurieriSphinx Technologies Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release1990200820012022
Current release5.0.0, August 20203.5.1, February 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
server-lessFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary protocolGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLnono
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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