DBMS > Databricks vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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

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Name

Description

The 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 DBMS

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	78.61
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.databricks.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Databricks

Baidu

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2013

2018

2015

2013

2001

Current release

0.9

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

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

with Databricks SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

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

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Users, roles and permissions

yes

using Azure authentication

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