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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. RDFox vs. Sequoiadb vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sequoiadb.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Google

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2014

2017

2013

2001

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

6.0, Septermber 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

proprietary protocol using JSON

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
Java

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

replication via a shared file system

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Roles, resources, and access types

simple password-based access control

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