DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Memgraph vs. Oracle vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Memgraph vs. Oracle vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Widely used RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.esgyn.cn

memgraph.com

www.oracle.com/database

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Esgyn

Memgraph Ltd

Oracle

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2015

2017

1980

2001

Current release

23c, September 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

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

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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