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System Properties Comparison Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS

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NamePercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Spatial extension of SQLiteOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsphinxsearch.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperPerconaAlessandro FurieriSphinx Technologies Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2015200820012012
Current release3.4.10-2.10, November 20175.0.0, August 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSONProprietary protocolJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptnonono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovia In-Memory Engineyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnonono

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