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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sphinx

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.objectbox.io

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

ObjectBox Limited

Sybase, SAP

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

1991

2017

1993

2001

Current release

5.7

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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