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System Properties Comparison OrigoDB vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

origodb.com

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

origodb.com/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Robert Friberg et al

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2009

under the name LiveDB

2001

2020

1987

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

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

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

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.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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