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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Sphinx vs. TigerGraph vs. Valentina Server

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  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 databasesA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.42
Rank#169  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score6.06
Rank#61  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.92
Rank#143  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#331  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websiteobjectbox.iosphinxsearch.comwww.tigergraph.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.tigergraph.comvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.Paradigma Software
Initial release2017200120171999
Current release3.5.1, February 20235.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialcommercial
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++C++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (GSQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIProprietary protocolGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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