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DBMS > Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RethinkDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RethinkDB vs. Sphinx

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataOracles in-memory data grid solutionDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#348  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#127  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmachbase.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencerethinkdb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmachbase.com/­dbmsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencerethinkdb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleMachbaseOracleThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20142013200720092001
Current release2.1.12, February 2017V8.0, August 202314.1, August 20232.4.1, August 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
TriggersUsing read-only observersnoyes infoLive EventsClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding inforange basedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurableAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databasenoyes infooptionallyyesyes 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 infousing MemoryDByes infovolatile and lookup tableyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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