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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Pinecone vs. Sphinx

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSSearch engineVector DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.databricks.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.pinecone.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comhugegraph.apache.org/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDatabricksBaiduMicrosoftPinecone Systems, IncSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20132018201520192001
Current release0.9V13.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Unix
hostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
PythonC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
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 controlUsers, roles and permissionsyes infousing Azure authenticationno
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