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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. NSDb vs. OpenQM vs. Sphinx

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSSearch engine
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
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.graphengine.ionsdb.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualnsdb.io/­Architecturesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2010201719932001
Current release3.4-123.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systems.NETLinux
macOS
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringno
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Java
Scala
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 storageUsing Apache Luceneyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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