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DBMS > Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperGoogleHughes Technologiesinformationpartners gmbhSphinx Technologies Inc.Splice Machine
Initial release20141994201520012014
Current release2.1.12, February 20174.4, October 20211.03.5.1, February 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++C++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoon the application servernoyes infoJava
TriggersUsing read-only observersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnomultiple readers, single writernoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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 MemoryDBnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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