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System Properties Comparison RDFox vs. Realm vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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NameRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen 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 method
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.oxfordsemantic.techrealm.iospark.apache.org/­sqlsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techrealm.io/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperOxford Semantic TechnologiesRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Apache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20172014201420012011
Current release6.0, Septermber 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynonono
Triggersyes infoChange Listenersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesreplication via a shared file systemnonenonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlRoles, resources, and access typesyesnonono

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