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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Hazelcast vs. Solr vs. Sphinx vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Hazelcast vs. Solr vs. Sphinx vs. XTDB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA widely adopted in-memory data gridA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value storeSearch engineSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.graphengine.iohazelcast.comsolr.apache.orgsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docssolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftHazelcastApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20102008200620012019
Current release5.3.6, November 20239.6.1, May 20243.5.1, February 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CJavaJavaC++Clojure
Server operating systems.NETAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesJava pluginsnono
Triggersnoyes infoEventsyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapyesnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedoptimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyesno

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