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System Properties Comparison OrientDB vs. PouchDB vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx

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NameOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteorientdb.orgpouchdb.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guideswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPApache Software Foundationinformationpartners gmbhSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2010201220152001
Current release3.2.29, March 20247.1.1, June 20191.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language, no joinsnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, JavascriptView functions in JavaScriptyes infoon the application serverno
TriggersHooksyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationship in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablenoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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