DBMS > Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Search engine

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Google

Hughes Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2014

1994

2013

2015

2001

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

1.0

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD

commercial

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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