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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Sphinx vs. SQream DB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Sphinx vs. SQream DB vs. TigerGraph

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comsphinxsearch.comsqream.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcessphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.sqream.comdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperExasolSphinx Technologies Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release2000200120172017
Current release3.5.1, February 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Proprietary protocol.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functions in Pythonyes
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control

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