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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Drizzle vs. NuoDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Drizzle vs. NuoDB vs. Sphinx

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score0.16
Rank#333  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#310  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.99
Rank#195  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredoc.nuodb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.AlibabaDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162016200820132001
Current release2.1, December 20187.2.4, September 20123.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
HTTP APIJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJava, SQLno
Triggersnonono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDACID infotunable commit protocolno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersno

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