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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. OrigoDB vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. Trafodion

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseOpen 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 SparkTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#378  Overall
#51  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#255  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websiteobjectbox.ioorigodb.comsphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.ioorigodb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-workstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedRobert Friberg et alSphinx Technologies Inc.Splice MachineApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20172009 infounder the name LiveDB200120142014
Current release3.5.1, February 20233.1, March 20212.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C#C++JavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsnoyesyes
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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.NetC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infoJavaJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyes infoDomain Eventsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesdepending on modelnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes 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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole based authorizationnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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