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DBMS > Greenplum vs. HugeGraph vs. Kinetica vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. HugeGraph vs. Kinetica vs. Sphinx

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegreenplum.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.kinetica.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orghugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.BaiduKineticaSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2005201820122001
Current release7.0.0, September 20230.97.1, August 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Groovy
Java
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesvia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoedges in graphyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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