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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Pinecone vs. Riak KV vs. Sphinx

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA managed, cloud-native vector databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteobjectbox.iowww.pinecone.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iodocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedPinecone Systems, IncOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2017201920092001
Current release3.2.0, December 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleannono
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 indexesyesrestrictedyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
PythonC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangno
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, using Riak Securityno
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