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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSSearch engineObject oriented DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchobjectbox.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikihugegraph.apache.org/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperRackspaceBaiduMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20132018201520172001
Current release0.9V13.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Unix
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary native APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceonline/offline synchronization between client and servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsyes infousing Azure authenticationyesno
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