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

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 MobileDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Open 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 storeSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score1.42
Rank#169  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#110  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score6.06
Rank#61  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#257  Overall
#118  Relational DBMS
Websiteobjectbox.iorethinkdb.comsphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iorethinkdb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-workstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Sphinx Technologies Inc.Splice MachineApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20172009200120142014
Current release2.4.1, August 20203.5.1, February 20233.1, March 20212.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open 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
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyesyes
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 fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIProprietary 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
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++ 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 proceduresnonoyes infoJavaJava Stored Procedures
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding inforange basedSharding 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 methodsnoyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infousers and table-level permissionsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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