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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Sphinx vs. Typesense

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSSearch engineSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.76
Rank#219  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
sphinxsearch.comtypesense.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthugegraph.apache.org/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docstypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperBaiduSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2016201820012015
Current release0.93.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes 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 nodesselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers, roles and permissionsno

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