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System Properties Comparison Oracle Coherence vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS vs. TerminusDB

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NameOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOracles in-memory data grid solutionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPort of SQLite to JavaScriptScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.90
Rank#127  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencesphinxsearch.comsql.js.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencesphinxsearch.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperOracleSphinx Technologies Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2007200120122018
Current release14.1, August 20233.5.1, February 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolJavaScript APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersyes infoLive Eventsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with selectable consistency levelnonenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurablenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infooptionallyyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnonoRole-based access control

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