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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Pinecone vs. SAP HANA vs. Sphinx

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA managed, cloud-native vector databaseIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score44.69
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteobjectbox.iowww.pinecone.iowww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iodocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewhelp.sap.com/­hanasphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedPinecone Systems, IncSAPSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2017201920102001
Current release2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedAppliance or cloud-serviceFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyesno
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 indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
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
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoSQLScript, Rno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesSharding 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 serveryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesno
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