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System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB vs. ToroDB

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NameSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitesphinxsearch.comsql.js.orgswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer Plaha8Kdata
Initial release2001201220182016
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptScalaJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users and roles

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