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System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. SQL.JS vs. TerminusDB vs. VoltDB

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NameSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPort of SQLite to JavaScriptScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitesphinxsearch.comsql.js.orgterminusdb.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.voltdb.com
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersDataChemist Ltd.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release2001201220182010
Current release3.5.1, February 202311.0.0, January 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptProlog, RustJava, C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolJavaScript APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesJava
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
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 fileyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access controlUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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