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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. HugeGraph vs. JSqlDb vs. Realm vs. Sphinx

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document storeSearch engine
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
jsqldb.org (offline)realm.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iohugegraph.apache.org/­docsrealm.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.BaiduKonrad von BackstromRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20152018201820142001
Current release0.90.8, December 20183.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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 indexnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
JavaScript.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaasynchronous Gremlin script jobsfunctions in JavaScriptno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnononoyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infoedges in graphnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes 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.yesyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsyesno

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