DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

pinot.apache.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.snowflake.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Baidu

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2015

2018

2015

2014

2001

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

0.9

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

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.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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