DBMS > Datomic vs. HugeGraph vs. NSDb vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. HugeGraph vs. NSDb vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

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

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.datomic.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

nsdb.io

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Cognitect

Baidu

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

2018

2017

2013

2001

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

0.9

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
macOS

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Groovy
Java
Python

Java
Scala

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

yes

Transaction Functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

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

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

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