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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. HugeGraph vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

All 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 fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

newdatabase.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Mobiland AG

Baidu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2018

2014

2001

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

0.9

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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