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DBMS > DataFS vs. Graph Engine vs. Infobright vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Graph Engine vs. Infobright vs. Sphinx

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NameDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#354  Overall
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitenewdatabase.comwww.graphengine.ioignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperMobiland AGMicrosoftIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2018201020052001
Current release1.1.263, October 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation language.NET and CCC++
Server operating systemsWindows.NETLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersno, except callback-events from server when changes happenednonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesProprietary Sharding systemhorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
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 dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes 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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlWindows-Profilefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesno

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