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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. NSDb vs. NuoDB vs. Sphinx vs. Yaacomo

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.53
Rank#164  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score6.06
Rank#61  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitedgraph.ionsdb.iowww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasesphinxsearch.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecturedoc.nuodb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20162017201320012009
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, ScalaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava, SQLno
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocolnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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