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DBMS > Citus vs. Dgraph vs. JSqlDb vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Dgraph vs. JSqlDb vs. Sphinx

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.39
Rank#155  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.citusdata.comdgraph.iojsqldb.org (offline)sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdgraph.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Konrad von BackstromSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2010201620182001
Current release8.1, December 20180.8, December 20183.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCGoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nofunctions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSynchronous replication via Raftnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes 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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoPlanned for future releasesno

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