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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Netezza vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx vs. SurrealDB

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen 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 DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaobjectbox.iosphinxsearch.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleIBMObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20142000201720012022
Current release2.1.12, February 20173.5.1, February 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++C++Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux infoincluded in applianceAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APIProprietary protocolGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
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 proceduresnoyesnono
TriggersUsing read-only observersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes 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 infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesnoyes, based on authentication and database rules
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