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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. HugeGraph vs. Sphinx

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitepinot.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orghugegraph.apache.org/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsBaiduSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release201520182001
Current release1.0.0, September 20230.93.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
macOS
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.no
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsno

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