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DBMS > EJDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. Sphinx

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchnsdb.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdhugegraph.apache.org/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchnsdb.io/­Architecturesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSoftmotionsBaiduMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122018201520172001
Current release0.9V13.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJavaJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
macOS
Unix
hostedLinux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes 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 methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes infoedges in graphnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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