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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. Trino vs. Vitess

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQLScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
Document 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
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score4.99
Rank#65  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websiteobjectbox.iosphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4trino.iovitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docstrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
vitess.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SCTrino Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2017200120112012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL2013
Current release3.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 201515.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C#JavaGo
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnodepending on connected data-sourceyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIProprietary protocol.NET Client APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
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
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes, depending on connected data-sourceyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonedepending on connected data-sourceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and servernonenonedepending on connected data-sourceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-sourceEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonodepending on connected data-sourceACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesdepending on connected data-sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonoSQL standard access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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ObjectBoxSphinxSTSdbTrinoVitess
Specific characteristicsTrino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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