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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. MonetDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.monetdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Google

MonetDB BV

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2014

2004

2001

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

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)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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