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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Hazelcast vs. HugeGraph vs. Sphinx vs. Trafodion

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLA widely adopted in-memory data gridA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphhazelcast.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
sphinxsearch.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.HazelcastBaiduSphinx Technologies Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162008201820012014
Current release2.1, December 20185.3.6, November 20230.93.5.1, February 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyes infoEventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated Mapyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesvia hugegraph-sparknoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlUsers, roles and permissionsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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