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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. HugeGraph vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. HugeGraph vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
hsqldb.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designhugegraph.apache.org/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsBaiduMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122018200120152001
Current release29.0.1, April 20240.92.7.2, June 2023V13.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
macOS
Unix
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsJava, SQLnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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