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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Sphinx vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Multivalue DBMS

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Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	3.47
Rank	#93	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

sphinxsearch.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Rocket Software

Initial release

2014

2001

1985

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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