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System Properties Comparison Oracle Coherence vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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NameOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#131  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencesphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencesphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperOracleSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2007200120112018
Current release14.1, August 20233.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol.NET Client 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
C#
Java
JavaScript
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurablenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infooptionallyyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnonoRole-based access control

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