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DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB

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NameFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSSearch engineSearch engineWide column store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperFairCom CorporationBaiduMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release19792018201520012020
Current releaseV3, October 20200.9V13.5.1, February 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++asynchronous Gremlin script jobsnonono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyes 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 systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Users, roles and permissionsyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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