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DBMS > Lovefield vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx vs. TigerGraph vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx vs. TigerGraph vs. YTsaurus

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
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
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldobjectbox.iosphinxsearch.comwww.tigergraph.comytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.tigergraph.comytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperGoogleObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.Yandex
Initial release20142017200120172023
Current release2.1.12, February 20173.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++C++C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxUbuntu
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (GSQL)YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIProprietary protocolGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
TriggersUsing read-only observersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding 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 servernoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnoRole-based access controlAccess Control Lists
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