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System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. RDFox vs. Sphinx

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NameOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.oxfordsemantic.techsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.techsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperOracleOxford Semantic TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release201120172001
Current release23.3, December 20236.0, Septermber 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesno
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurereplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRoles, resources, and access typesno

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