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DBMS > Realm vs. Sphinx vs. StarRocks vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Realm vs. Sphinx vs. StarRocks vs. STSdb

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NameRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiterealm.iosphinxsearch.comwww.starrocks.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationrealm.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Sphinx Technologies Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023STS Soft SC
Initial release2014200120202011
Current release3.5.1, February 20232.5.3, March 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++, JavaC#
Server operating systemsAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes 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 indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolJDBC
MySQL protocol
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynouser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoChange Listenersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno

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