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DBMS > ObjectBox vs. Riak KV vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Riak KV vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.57
Rank#248  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websiteobjectbox.iosphinxsearch.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsphinxsearch.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2017200920012012
Current release3.2.0, December 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++ErlangC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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 SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocolJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C 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
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangnono
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
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 supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, using Riak Securitynono
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