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DBMS > Newts vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J vs. Sphinx vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Newts vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J vs. Sphinx vs. VelocityDB

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NameNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS based on CassandraOracles in-memory data grid solutionRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRDF storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteopennms.github.io/­newtswww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencerdf4j.orgsphinxsearch.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencerdf4j.org/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperOpenNMS GroupOracleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Sphinx Technologies Inc.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20142007200420012011
Current release14.1, August 20233.5.1, February 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Java API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Proprietary protocol.Net
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C++
Java
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersnoyes infoLive EventsyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with selectable consistency levelnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoconfigurableACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes 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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnonoBased on Windows Authentication

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