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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph vs. Tkrzw

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engineGraph DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.graphengine.iosphinxsearch.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlindbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release2010200120092020
Current release3.5.1, February 20230.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++JavaC++
Server operating systems.NETFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Groovy
Java
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes
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 storageyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.optionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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