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DBMS > Galaxybase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Manticore Search vs. Sphinx vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Manticore Search vs. Sphinx vs. Titan

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegalaxybase.comwww.hawkular.orgmanticoresearch.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidemanual.manticoresearch.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Community supported by Red HatManticore SoftwareSphinx Technologies Inc.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20172014201720012012
Current releaseNov 20, November 20216.0, February 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeStrong typed schemaschema-freeFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannoyes
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.nonoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HTTP RESTBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Proprietary protocolJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnononoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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