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DBMS > Lovefield vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Sphinx vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Sphinx vs. Vitess

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileWidely used in-process key-value storeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Search engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldobjectbox.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlsphinxsearch.comvitess.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.objectbox.iodocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperGoogleObjectBox LimitedOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSphinx Technologies Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20142017199420012013
Current release2.1.12, February 201718.1.40, May 20203.5.1, February 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++Go
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersUsing read-only observersnoyes infoonly for the SQL APInoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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 MemoryDBnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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