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DBMS > Lovefield vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak TS vs. Sphinx vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak TS vs. Sphinx vs. Yanza

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series 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
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldobjectbox.iosphinxsearch.comyanza.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.objectbox.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleObjectBox LimitedOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.Yanza
Initial release20142017201520012015
Current release2.1.12, February 20173.0.0, September 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonono
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 indexesyesyesrestrictedyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes, limitedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocolHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangnono
TriggersUsing read-only observersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infolinks between datasets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
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 controlnoyesnonono
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