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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. OpenSearch vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Rank	#307	Overall
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	#13	RDF stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

sphinxsearch.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

opensearch.org/docs/latest

sphinxsearch.com/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Amazon Web Services

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2018

2021

2001

2012

Current release

2.3, January 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

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.

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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