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DBMS > ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP IQ vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP IQ vs. Sphinx

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteobjectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedSAP, formerly SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB19942001
Current release10 R1, October 201816.1 SPS04, April 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding 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 serverSAP/Sybase Replication Servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCACIDno
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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ObjectBoxPostgres-XLSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQSphinx
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