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DBMS > ObjectBox vs. SiriDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. SiriDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sphinx

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsOpen Source Time Series DBMSSpatial extension of SQLiteOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
siridb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iodocs.siridb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedCesbitAlessandro FurieriSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2017201720082001
Current release4.0 (May 2024)5.0.0, August 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++CC++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linuxserver-lessFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes infoNumeric datayesno
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIHTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyessimple rights management via user accountsnono
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