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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx vs. SQLite vs. VelocityDB

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptOpen Source Time Series DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldsiridb.comsphinxsearch.comwww.sqlite.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.siridb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGoogleCesbitSphinx Technologies Inc.Dwayne Richard HippVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20142017200120002011
Current release2.1.12, February 20173.5.1, February 20233.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoPublic Domaincommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++CC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoNumeric datanoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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 fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocolADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
TriggersUsing read-only observersnonoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
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 MemoryDByesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsnonoBased on Windows Authentication

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