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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. Sphinx vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

objectbox.io

www.progress.com/openedge

sphinxsearch.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

sphinxsearch.com/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Progress Software Corporation

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2017

1984

2001

2012

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.5.1, February 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users and groups

yes

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