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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Prometheus vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

objectbox.io

prometheus.io

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

prometheus.io/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

STS Soft SC

Yanza

Initial release

2017

2015

2001

2011

2015

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

yes

by Federation

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

More information provided by the system vendor

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