DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. HugeGraph vs. Sphinx vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. HugeGraph vs. Sphinx vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

sphinxsearch.com

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Baidu

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Tencent

Initial release

2012

2018

2001

2013

Current release

0.9

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Groovy
Java
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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