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System Properties Comparison OpenQM vs. OrigoDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

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

origodb.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

origodb.com/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Robert Friberg et al

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

1993

2009

under the name LiveDB

2001

Current release

3.4-12

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based authorization

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