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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Sphinx vs. ToroDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/torodb/server

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

2017

2001

2016

2023

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

3.5.1, February 2023

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

More information provided by the system vendor

News

MongoDB Realm & Device Sync alternatives – ObjectBox
17 September 2024

Local AI – what it is and why we need it
11 September 2024

First on-device Vector Database (aka Semantic Index) for iOS
24 July 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases: Expanding AI Capabilities
18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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