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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

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

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Search engine

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Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	3.55
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

sphinxsearch.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Google

Microsoft

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2014

2012

2001

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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