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System Properties Comparison RDFox vs. RethinkDB vs. Sphinx vs. TempoIQ

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NameRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.oxfordsemantic.techrethinkdb.comsphinxsearch.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techrethinkdb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperOxford Semantic TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Sphinx Technologies Inc.TempoIQ
Initial release2017200920012012
Current release6.0, Septermber 20222.4.1, August 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes
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 indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Proprietary protocolHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesreplication via a shared file systemSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRoles, resources, and access typesyes infousers and table-level permissionsnosimple authentication-based access control

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