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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BoltDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Sphinx

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLAn embedded key-value store for Go.DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.dolphindb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.DolphinDB, IncElasticSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162013201820102001
Current release2.1, December 2018v2.00.4, January 20228.6, January 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGoC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
GoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyesno
Triggersnononoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenonehorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAdministrators, Users, Groupsno

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